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Man's Needs and Their Supplies 




ROBERT WEIDENSALL 



Man's Needs 
and Their Supplies 



ROBERT WEIDENSALL 

A.B., LL.D., D.A.S. 



ASSOCIATION PRESS 

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1919 



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Dedicated to 

My Christlike Parents 

Nancy Frampton 

AND 

Jacob Weidensall 

also to My Alma Mater, 

Pennsylvania College, 

Gettysburg, Pa. 



"But my God shall supply all your need 
according to his riches in glory by Christ 

J eSUS . — Paul : Philippians 4:19. 



PREFACE 

Many professing Christians without constant reliance 
upon God, are almost wholly conformed to the non- 
Christian ways and customs of this world. They live 
lives very unsatisfactory to themselves and hurtful to 
others. Depressed with the ever-recurring discourage- 
ments and uncertainties of life in this world, they fail 
to perceive and experience its many real pleasures and 
joys. Disheartened by the prevailing doubts and dread 
of the future, they also fail to delight in and hope for the 
glorious realities of the life in the world to come. 

All of this is unnecessary and ought not to be. The 
Lord God is most gracious and ready to benefit in every 
way all that come to Him in the name of Jesus Christ 
with true desire and belief. 

It is an amazing fact, beyond dispute, that the Lord 
God has made unlimited provisions for all of Man's needs 
for his body and for his soul ; for time and for eternity. 

All of these provisions are available to Man without 
price, if sought for according to the all-gracious will of 
the Lord God, clearly and definitely expressed in His 
Holy Word, the Bible. 

With constant prayer to God in the name of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, and with trustful reliance upon the Holy 
Spirit, I have endeavored in this volume to demonstrate 
the absolute certainty of this most significant and all- 
glorious fact. 

To this end, I have made use of positive, clear, and 
absolutely certain proofs from nature and from revela- 
tion ; both of which corroborate each other's testimony in 
many particulars upon this all-important subject. 

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PREFACE 



As all Christian people are well acquainted with the 
abundant provisions of the Creator for the needs of their 
bodies, but not so well acquainted with His boundless 
provisions for the needs of their souls, I have made much 
and frequent use of the Hebrew revelation, the Bible, the 
Word of God, which demonstrates beyond question the 
unlimited provisions of the Creator for all the needs of 
Man — for body and soul ; for time and eternity. 

I have endeavored to discuss this wonderful and com- 
prehensive subject in the language and style of the com- 
mon people and with heartfelt emphasis, that they might 
not only understand it, but also appreciate its very great 
importance. 

I have also endeavored to arrange all of its subject 
matter in such a manner that it might be readily and in- 
telligently used by uneducated fathers and mothers with 
their children ; by ordinary untrained young men and 
young women with their fellow young men and young 
women; and indeed, by persons from almost all classes 
of the common people for their own kind of the common 
people, in leading them to the Lord Jesus Christ for per- 
sonal salvation and into the Kingdom of God, wherein 
they will realize the promised unlimited and all-satisfying 
provisions of the Lord God for all of their needs in time 
and in eternity. 

And lastly, I have endeavored to outline a service for 
all true Christians, by which the Kingdom of God could 
be much more efficiently and successfully advanced in 
this world, than it is at present. 

May the Lord Jesus Christ bless the use of this volume 
in the extension of His Kingdom on the earth. 

Robert Weidensall. 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Preface vii 

Introduction i 

I 
General Statement 7 

II 

Needs of the Body and Their Supplies 8 

III 

The Evil Results from the Misuse of the True Supplies 
for the Needs of the Body or from the Use of 
Adulterations or Substitutes for Them 14 

IV 

The Needs of the Soul and Their Supplies 17 

V 

Supplying the Spiritual or Soul Needs of the Natural 
Man Infinitely More Unsatisfactory than That 
of His Bodily Needs 27 

VI 

A Complete Revelation to Man by His Creator an 
Absolute Necessity 30 

VII 

The Revelation of the Creation of the Heaven, of 
the Earth, and of Man 34 

VIII 

The Revelation of the Fall of Man with Its Dreadful 

Consequences 40 

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PAGE 

The Temptation by Satan, the Fall of Man, and the 
Immediate Punishments 40 

The Lord God Reckoned with the Offenders and Admin- 
istered the Punishments 46 

The Dreadful Results of Man's Fall Entailed upon His 
Posterity Down to the Present Time 52 

IX 

The Revelation of Salvation by the Lord God for 
Man, Which Is Infinitely Greater than What 
Was Lost in the Fall 59 

X 

Restatement of Man's Fall and the Punishment 
Administered 62 

The Lord God Reckoned with the Offenders and Pro- 
nounced upon Them Their Sentences 62 

The Real Tempter Was That "Old Serpent, Called the 
Devil and Satan" 65 

Dreadful Condition Brought upon Adam and His Wife 
and Their Posterity by Their Disobedience 69 

The Seed of the Woman the Only and All-Sufficient Sub- 
stitute for Man's Restoration 71 

XI 

The Seed of the Woman was None Other than Jesus 
Christ, the All-Sufficient Saviour for All Men 72 

Who the Seed of the Woman Was 72 

What He Would Do with the Devil and His Works 75 

What He Would Do for the Complete Salvation of Man . . 75 

XII 

Three Undeniable Statements with Unanswerable 
Proofs that the Seed of the Woman, Jesus Christ, 
Could Not and Did Not Have a Human Father ... 78 

Joseph of Nazareth Was Not the Father of Jesus Christ . . 78 



CONTENTS xi 

PAGE 

If Joseph of Nazareth Was Not the Father of Jesus 
Christ, Then No Other Man Was His Father 88 

Neither Joseph of Nazareth Nor Any Other Man Could 
Be the Father of Jesus Christ, Because Like Always 
Begets Like 88 

XIII 

Man's Complete Salvation by Jesus Christ, as His 
All-Sufficient Substitute Provided for Him Long 
Before His Fall 94 

This Salvation for Man Provided Before His Creation ... 94 

This Salvation for Man Included All His Sin 96 

This Salvation for Man is All-Glorious Beyond Human 
Comprehension 97 

XIV 

The Application of Salvation through Jesus Christ 
in the First Ages of the World from the First 
Sinners in the Garden of Eden Down to Abraham . 100 

Application of This Salvation to Adam and His Wife in 
the Garden of Eden and out of It 100 

Application of This Salvation to the Children and Grand- 
children of Adam and His Wife While They Yet Lived . 102 

Application of This Salvation to Noah and His Family. . 112 

XV 

The Lord God Raised up a Peculiar Nation to Pre- 
pare the Nations of the Earth for the Salvation 
of Jesus Christ 118 

The Lord God Began the Development of This Nation in 
a Most Careful Manner, Based upon the Atonement 
of Jesus Christ 118 

The Deliverance of the Children of Israel from the 
Bondage of Egypt by the Blood of the Passover Lamb, 
Typical of the Blood of Jesus Christ, Our Passover 
which Delivers from All Bondage and Sin 124 



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PAGE 

The People of Israel were Disciplined and Formed into a 
Strong and God-Like Nation by the Sacrifices of the 
Tabernacle, Typical of the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. . 126 

XVI 

The Nation of Israel Was Enabled to Exercise a 
World-Wide Influence Upon the Nations of the 
Earth by the Sacrifices of the Great Temple at 
Jerusalem, Typical of the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 130 

XVII 

The Nation of Israel Was Held Together During 

all of its Existence by the Passover Feast with 

its Blood-Atoning Sacrifice, Typical of the Blood 

Atonement of Jesus Christ on Calvary, as by No 

Other Means 136 

The Great Passover Feast, Its Remarkable Atoning 
Sacrifices, Held in the Reign of Hezekiah, King of 
Judah 137 

The Very Notable Passover Feast, Its Multitude of 
Atoning Sacrifices with Great Radical Reforms, Held 
in the Reign of Josiah, the Young King of Judah. ... 140 

The Passover Feast in the Time of Ezra and the Sig- 
nificant Letter of Artaxerxes, King of Persia 142 

The Last and Most Significant Passover Feast Cele- 
brated by Jesus Christ and His Apostles, when the Pass- 
over Feast Ended with the Beginning of the Supper of 
the Lord, and when the Typical Atonement Ended 
with the Manifestation of the All-Satisfying Atone- 
ment of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World 145 

XVIII 

Three Great Outstanding Facts Pertaining to the 
Nation of Israel 148 

The Only Nation of its Time that Worshiped the Liv- 
ing God and Believed in the Promised Messiah 148 

The Holy Scriptures, the Book of Salvation by Jesus 
Christ, was Given to the World Through the Nation 
of Israel 150 



CONTENTS xiii 

PAGE 

Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Saviour of the World, 
Came of the Nation of Israel 151 

XIX 

Many Definite Promises of Salvation to Man by 
an All-Sufficient Saviour and Most Significant 
Types of its Accomplishment. Their Fulfilment 

and Realization 155 

The Promises and Their Fulfilment 156 

The Types and Their Realization 162 

Marked Differences Between the Typical Sacrifice of 
Animals and the Sacrifice of the Great Anti-type, 
Jesus Christ, the Son of God 167 

Evident Conclusions 169 

XX 

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only Saviour of 
Mankind 170 

XXI 
Jesus Christ the Last King of Israel 172 

XXII 

The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Not of This World. . . 178 

XXIII 

Preparation and Qualification of Jesus Christ to Be- 
gin and Establish the Kingdom of Heaven upon 
the Earth 181 

His Home Preparation 181 

His Consecration and Baptism of John the Baptist 181 

His Temptation and Victory Over Satan, the Devil 183 

XXIV 

Jesus Tempted as the Son of God and as the Heaven- 
Born King 187 



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PAGE 

In the First Two Temptations Jesus Was Tempted as the 
Son of God 187 

In the Third Temptation Jesus Was Tempted as the 
Heaven-Born King 189 

XXV 

Preliminary Steps of Jesus in Preparing the Way for 
the Establishment of His Kingdom, the Kingdom 
of Heaven on the Earth 191 

Proclamation of His Mission, Preaching the Kingdom 
of Heaven at Hand and the Selection of His Disciples. 191 

His Preaching and Teaching Accompanied with Mar- 
velous Divine Power Over Disease and Evil Spirits. 
Sermon on the Mount 193 

XXVI 

First Definite Steps of Jesus in the Establishment of 
His Kingdom on the Earth 196 

All- Night Prayer to God and Selection of His Twelve 
Apostles 196 

Cultivating the Most Friendly and Intimate Relation- 
ship with the Apostles and Affording Them the Most 
Essential Knowledge of Himself and the Kingdom ... 197 

XXVII 

Jesus Gave Power to These Twelve Chosen Apostles 
and Sent Them with Full Commission to Preach 
to the House of Israel that the Kingdom of Heaven 
Was at Hand 202 

The Twelve Apostles Commissioned and Sent to the 
House of Israel by Jesus 202 

Other Seventy Disciples Sent Before Him by Jesus 205 

XXVIII 

Some of the Notable Things by Which Jesus Qual- 
ified His Twelve Apostles to Begin and Extend His 
Kingdom on the Earth 208 



CONTENTS xv 

XXIX PAGE 

The Kingdom of God Illustrated in Parables by 
Jesus, and Special Promises to His Apostles Con- 
cerning the Kingdom 211 

XXX 

The Gift of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles of Jesus 
Would Be of Inestimable Value to Them in Three 
Most Important Ways 215 

XXXI 

The Apostles Returned to Jerusalem and Contin- 
ued with One Accord in Prayer. The Holy 
Ghost Was Poured Out Upon Them. They Were 
Endued with Power, Accompanied with Marvelous 
Results 218 

The Choosing of Matthias 218 

Pentecost 219 

Peter Addressed the Multitude 221 

Peter's Answer to the Question "Men and Brethren, 
What Shall We Do?" Its Immediate and Amazing 
Results 225 

The Manifest Beginning of the Kingdom of God Upon 
the Earth 226 

XXXII 

Belief and Testimony of the Apostles that Jesus 
Was at the Right Hand of God and that They 
Were Endued with Power by the Holy Ghost 
Sent upon Them by the Lord Jesus Christ 227 

XXXIII 

All-Important Inclusive and Conclusive Statements 
of the Apostles Paul and John, to Whom Were 
Given by far the Greater Revelations Concern- 
ing Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God, after 
His Ascension to God the Father in Heaven 231 



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PAGE 

Paul to the Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians 231 

Apostle John in Revelation 235 

XXXIV 

All-Assuring Testimonies — How the Lord God Will 
Abundantly Supply All the Needs of Man by the 
Wonderful Salvation of Jesus Christ 237 

Testimony of King David 237 

Testimony of Jesus Christ 240 

Testimony of the Apostle Paul 242 

XXXV 

Measureless and All-Satisfying Provisions of the 
Creator, God, for the Abundant Supply of All 
the Needs of the Soul of Man. Particular Needs 
of the Soul and the Provisions of the Creator, 
God, for Their Supply in Detail 246 

XXXVI 

With Infinite Love and Harmony God the Father 
Rules Together with the Lord Jesus Christ, His 
Only Begotten Son, in the Kingdom of Heaven. . 281 

XXXVII 

All of the Needs of the Soul are Provided For by 
the Creator, God, with Supplies All-Satisfying 
and Unlimited 284 

XXXVIII 

The Natural Man and How He Can Be Made, by 
Jesus Christ, a Worthy Partaker of All the Pro- 
visions of the Creator, God, for All the Needs 
of His Soul 286 



CONTENTS xvii 

PAGE 

The Lord Jesus Christ Spake Very Positively, Definitely, 
and Clearly on This All- Important Subject in His 
Interview with Nicodemus 286 

The Great Apostle Paul Also Has Stated Most Positively 
and Definitely the Deplorable and Helpless Condition 
of the Natural Man in Sin and Death, and How He 
Can be Triumphantly Saved and Afforded Everlasting 
Life by Jesus Christ 291 

XXXIX 

The Natural Man. How He Can and Must be Saved 

by Human Agency in the Name of Jesus Christ. 296 

All True Christians Commissioned by the Lord Jesus 
Christ to Do This' Most Blessed and Needful Work 
for Their Fellow Men 297 

To Accomplish the Best Possible Results, Every True 
Christian Should Voluntarily Concentrate His Best 
Efforts upon One Person Only at a Time, at Least 
One Hour a Week for a Whole Year if Necessary. . . . 299 

This is a Work that Every True Christian Can Do and 
Should Delight to Do, Because of the Lord's Positive 
Command, "As the Father Hath Sent Me, Even So 
Send I You" 301 

To Accomplish This Work As it Should Be Done, Every 
True Christian Must Know the Gospel of Jesus Christ 
to Obey His Direct Command: "Preach the Gospel 
to Every Creature" 302 

To Succeed in this Glorious Work Every True Christian 
Must Possess the Holy Spirit, as the Lord Jesus Com- 
manded His Apostles, "They Should Not Depart 
from Jerusalem, but Wait for the Promise of the 
Father," namely, the Holy Ghost 303 

XL 

Two Very Sure and Effective Means by Which the 
True Christian Worker Can Find Approach to the 
Natural Sinful Man, Convince Him of Sin, Lead 
Him to Jesus Christ for Personal Salvation, and 
Build Him up in Christian Manhood 305 

XLI 
A Note of Warning and Assurance 313 



INTRODUCTION 
Man's Needs and Their Supplies 

In the discussion of this most significant and compre- 
hensive subject, it naturally divides itself into two distinct 
parts : 

i. The needs of the body; which are physical, finite and 
temporal, and require physical, finite and temporal sup- 
plies ; and 

2. The needs of the soul; which are spiritual, infinite 
and eternal, and require spiritual, infinite and eternal 
supplies. 

The needs of the body so manifestly assert themselves 
that there can be no doubt of their reality and of their 
characteristics. The supplies for these needs are so 
plainly discerned by the bodily senses, that their reality 
and characteristics are as certain as are the needs of the 
body themselves and their characteristics. These sup- 
plies are so wonderfully adapted to the body and its 
needs, and so all-satisfying to them, that they demonstrate 
beyond a doubt, that the body, its needs and their supplies, 
are all the marvelous work of an all- wise, all- just, all- 
beneficent and almighty Creator. 

The needs of the soul also assert themselves in a 
manner that demonstrates beyond question their reality 
and their characteristics. The complete and satisfactory 
provision of the Creator for all the needs of the body of 
Man is a certain evidence of His complete and satisfactory 



2 INTRODUCTION 

provision for all the needs of the soul of Man; as the 
body and the soul of Man are both parts of one complete 
creation, for all of whose needs abundant supplies are 
provided. The provisions of the Creator for the needs 
of the soul, however, are spiritual and must be spiritu- 
ally discerned and realized. Hence, the natural Man is 
unable to perceive and enjoy them, since he is totally be- 
reft of the spiritual sense with which his first parents 
were endowed, when created. 

In fact, the natural Man, of himself, is totally ignorant 
of his origin, how he came into existence; of his present 
deplorable condition, how he was brought into it, and how 
he can be delivered from it; and of the end of his life, 
what it shall be. Accordingly, he is in absolute need of 
a complete revelation from his Creator upon these and all 
other vital questions relative to his entire existence, both 
for time and for eternity. 

The Hebrew sacred Scriptures, now commonly known 
as the Bible, constitute this needed revelation. In this 
discussion will be found a carefully prepared outline of 
this revelation: 

i. Of Man's glorious creation and life with the Lord 
God in Eden ; 

2. Of his inglorious fall and its dreadful consequences 
upon all of his posterity; 

3. Of the most gracious and amazing salvation prom- 
ised for him by the Lord God in Eden, and accomplished 
by the sacrificial death of His only begotten Son, Jesus 
Christ, on the cross of Calvary; and, 

4. Of the unlimited and all-satisfying provisions of the 
Lord God for all of the needs of the soul of Man. 

In this connection a number of the most apparent and, 



INTRODUCTION 3 

doubtless, the most vital needs of the soul are definitely 
specified, as well as the particular provisions recorded in 
this revelation for their full supply. They are so com- 
pletely adapted to each other — the needs of the soul and 
the provisions for their supply — so all-satisfying to them, 
that without doubt, the soul, its needs and the provisions 
for their supply, like the body, its needs and their supplies, 
previously mentioned, are all the marvelous work of an 
all- wise, all- just, all-beneficent and almighty Creator. 

All of these marvelous and glorious provisions of the 
Lord God for the soul of Man, both for time and eternity, 
are freely available to any Man who will turn away from 
his sinful life, and put his whole trust in Jesus Christ as 
his Lord and Saviour, and thereby enter into the everlast- 
ing Kingdom of God. 

While the Lord Jesus Christ by His death on the cross 
purchased salvation for all men, and while He Himself 
began the establishment of His Kingdom upon the earth, 
it is clearly His will, as definitely made known by Him- 
self, that all men must be led to Him for personal salva- 
tion and into His Kingdom by human agency under the 
direction of the Holy Spirit. This places a tremendous 
responsibility upon all true Christians, since the great 
masses of mankind are without Christ and His Kingdom. 

This may be accounted for to a considerable extent. 

1. By a want of true consecration on the part of the 
great majority of Christians to Jesus Christ and His 
Kingdom ; 

2. By the use of all kinds of means and methods to in- 
fluence men and women for their moral welfare without 
the Gospel of Christ and of His Kingdom ; 

3. By turning over all of His work to the comparatively 



4 INTRODUCTION 

few employed public servants, the great majority of 
whom are faithful to their calling and trust; but are 
dreadfully handicapped in many ways, chiefly by the al- 
most universal absence of volunteer workers in winning 
their fellow men and women to Jesus Christ and into His 
Kingdom ; and 

4. By too much dependence upon temporary efforts on 
a large scale at times and places too far apart to make up 
in the least degree for what is lost by the first three 
hindrances above mentioned. Whatever may, or may not 
be, the real causes of the deplorable condition of our 
fellow men and women at the present time in the world, 
the fact of its real existence is not only certain, but is 
plainly evident to all observers. 

All through the discussion of this all-important subject, 
the name of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God have 
been made prominent, as the only channels through which 
all the blessings of the Lord God can be bestowed upon 
sinful men. 

Jesus Christ Himself declared : 

1. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his right- 
eousness ; and all these things shall be added unto you" 
(Matt. 6:33). 

2. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy 
laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt. 11 : 28). 

The Apostle Peter, full of the Holy Ghost, and ad- 
dressing the rulers and elders of Israel concerning the 
saving power of Jesus Christ, said : "Neither is there sal- 
vation in any other: for there is none other name under 
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" 
(Acts 4: 12). 

In conclusion of this subject, a definite and practical 



INTRODUCTION 5 

plan of individual volunteer effort for individuals on the 
part of all true Christians, in all conditions of life, is 
suggested, by which they could render the greatest pos- 
sible service to their fellow men in their present deplor- 
able condition. 

In this effort they could and would individually lead 
their fellow men and women to Jesus Christ for personal 
salvation from all of their sin and into the Kingdom of 
God, wherein all of their needs to the uttermost could 
and would be supplied for time and eternity, by the un- 
limited and all-satisfying provisions of the Lord God 
for men. 

Moreover, in this blessed service as individuals for 
individuals in the name of Jesus Christ and under the 
direction of the Holy Spirit, all true Christians could and 
would cooperate most harmoniously and efficiently with 
each other, with the regularly appointed ministry, and 
with all other employed servants of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, in the work of His Church on the earth. 



I 

General Statement 

Needs of the Body and of the Soul or Spirit and 

their Supplies 

To any observing and right-minded person, who has 
made a careful study of Man, it is evident that Man is a 
being of needs innumerable, or, as the scientist would 
probably say, a being wholly made up of need-cells, phys- 
ical and spiritual in kind, finite and infinite in extent, and 
temporal and eternal in duration, not one of which can 
he of himself supply. 

The needs of the body are physical, finite and temporal, 
and require physical, finite and temporal supplies only. 
The needs of the soul or spirit, however, are spiritual, 
infinite and eternal, and require spiritual, infinite and 
eternal supplies. 

The supply or non-supply of all of these needs affords 
pleasure or pain, as it relates to the body, and joy or sor- 
row, as it relates to the soul or spirit. 

The mind of Man doubtless has its needs and supplies 
adapted to each other by the Creator. The mind, how- 
ever, is so intimately connected with the body and the 
soul, and so interested in their needs and supplies, that it 
is unnecessary to consider its needs and supplies in this 
study. 

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II 

Needs of the Body and Their Supplies 

A supply has been provided for all of the needs of the 
body, abundant in quantity, perfect in adaptation and 
wholly satisfying in quality. So perfect and complete is 
this supply for all the needs of the body that it compels 
the belief in an all-wise, all-just, all-beneficent and al- 
mighty Creator. 

Air, water, food, light, and heat are, doubtless, chief 
among the things needed by the body. The great abun- 
dance of these supplies, their complete adaptation to par- 
ticular needs of the body, and their real satisfying qual- 
ities, clearly demonstrate that they were provided by 
Man's Creator for these particular needs of the body. 
It requires no argument to prove this. No one can hon- 
estly doubt it. Universal experience renders it self-evi- 
dent. 

To illustrate more definitely concerning the particular 
supplies above specified — air, water, food, light, and heat 
— each must be spoken of somewhat in detail. While the 
need of the body for air is finite, it is so great and con- 
stant, that it borders on the infinite. It is needed in the 
daytime and in the night, when awake or asleep. It is 
not to be secured by measure and stored away for use at 
intervals. The body must not be separated from it. The 
supply must be constant and abundant. Hence, Man's 
Creator put him into an ocean of air, greater than all the 
water-oceans of the earth. Its adaptation to particular 

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NEEDS OF THE BODY 9 

needs of the body, and its satisfying quality may be re- 
garded as perfect. 

The need of the body for water, though less constant, 
perhaps, than for air, is so pressing and necessary that 
Man's Creator has provided it abundantly almost every- 
where and easily to be obtained. As moisture, it is in the 
air practically everywhere, and often deposited as rain or 
snow, to help make sure other needed supplies for the 
body. By a wise provision of the Creator, water can be 
secured almost everywhere, as a constant supply from 
springs and wells. A constant and adequate supply is 
assured, since three-fourths of the earth's surface is 
water. It is scarcely necessary to state that water is 
wonderfully adapted to particular needs of the body, and 
equally satisfying to them. 

The need of the body for food is, doubtless, less con- 
stant or frequent than for air or water ; but none the less 
imperative. While food is not provided, as a general 
thing, in condition for immediate use, it is secured by 
exercise and personal effort, which are necessary to its 
proper appropriation and assimilation by the body. Its 
abundance, adaptation to the needs of the body, and its 
satisfying quality, are unquestionable. 

The needs of the body for light and heat are, in some 
respects, almost limitless and in other respects quite lim- 
ited. The Creator has accordingly provided the former 
with the unmeasured light and heat of the sun ready for 
use, and has afforded the latter ample materials from 
which to supply all necessary artificial light and heat, 
needed by the body. The artificial light and heat are 
readily adapted to the needs of the body and afford satis- 
faction. As regards the light and heat of the sun, they 



io MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

are beyond description in quantity, in adaptation to the 
bodily needs, and in satisfying quality. 

Supplies for other particular needs of the body by 
Man's Creator would admit of like definite illustration, as 
regards their abundance, adaptation and satisfying qual- 
ities. Accordingly, it follows without argument that all 
of the needs of the body are in like manner provided for 
by the Creator. 

In brief, there are seven definite and essential things 
connected with each of the needs of the body of man and 
its supplies above mentioned, which are the all-wise and 
all-beneficent design and work of the Creator. 

I. The Need of the Body for Air and Its Supply. 

i. The body was created with a vital need of air. 

2. There is the air provided by the Creator for its 

supply. 

3. It is practically ever-available. 

4. It is perfectly adapted to the body and this special 

need. 

5. It satisfies the need. 

6. The supply of air is abundant, and 

7. Its proper use affords great pleasure. 

II. The Need of the Body for Water and Its Supply. 

1. The body was created with a vital need of water. 

2. There is the water provided by the Creator for its 

supply. 

3. It is practically ever-available. 

4. It is perfectly adapted to the body and this special 

need. 

5. It satisfies the need. 



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6. The supply of water is abundant, and 

7. Its proper use affords great pleasure. 

In like manner, these seven definite and essential things 
pertain to the needs of the body of man for food, for 
light, and for heat, and for their special supplies, as well 
as to all the other needs of the body and their special sup- 
plies, whether we are able to trace them or not. 

Since the Creator has made the body of Man with its 
innumerable needs, and provided so completely for all 
of them, is it not reasonable to suppose that His purpose 
was that all of them were to be fully supplied? 

And since the supplying of any one of these needs of 
the body, by the provisions of the Creator, affords great 
pleasure, must it not have been the design of the Creator 
in providing for the supply of all these needs so fully to 
afford His creature — Man — unspeakable pleasure, and 
receive in return unceasing thanks and praise from an all- 
grateful creature? 

The crowning act of creation was, without doubt, the 
creation of Man. He must have come from the hand of 
the Creator perfect in every respect, including his body. 
The needs of his body must, therefore, have been in per- 
fect condition, and their supply by the provisions of the 
Creator must have afforded him the greatest pleasure. 

If supplying the needs of the body now, with all their 
imperfections, is a great pleasure, what must it have been 
then? 

These needs, or need-cells, of the body are all directly 
connected with the brain by a complete system of nerves, 
through which all sense of pleasure or pain from any 
part of the body is transmitted instantaneously to the 
brain, and perceived by the mind of Man, which has con- 



12 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

trol of the body. This wonderful system of nerve sense 
is divided into five general groups : touch, taste, smelling, 
hearing, and seeing. They not only afford the brain or 
mind a knowledge of the immediate experiences of the 
needs or need-cells of the body, but serve as faithful 
sentinels of approaching good or evil things, that would 
benefit or injure the body. 

This not only begets a consciousness of what the body 
may enjoy or suffer from what it is soon to be exposed 
to, but a conscience that would dictate what to choose or 
reject. This renders Man, with his bodily senses, a self- 
discerner of the good or evil things to which his body may 
be exposed, a self-judge by experience of what is good 
or bad, approving the good and condemning the bad, and 
a self-executor, accepting the good and rejecting the bad. 
It matters not whether a Man will believe this or not. 
The facts cannot be disposed of by unbelief. As facts, 
they are as certain as the body itself, and its needs. The 
Creator provided the body with these senses for its high- 
est enjoyment, protection and usefulness. 

The needs of the body are no less in numbers now than 
at the beginning, and the supplies of the Creator just as 
abundant, including many supplies with more satisfactory 
qualities discovered. 

From a careful and true study of the body of Man, and 
of its needs, as we are able to do, and of the wonderful 
and satisfying supplies provided for them, as well as 
from the study of the experiences of Man in the use and 
misuse, or nonuse of these supplies, we are justified in 
making the following statements : 

i. That there is an all- wise, all- just, all-beneficent and 
almighty Creator. 



NEEDS OF THE BODY 13 

2. That the body of Man was created with innumer- 
able needs, not one of which can he of himself supply. 

3. That the Creator has provided supplies abundant for 
all of these needs, adaptable and satisfying to them in 
the highest degree, and doubtless with the purpose that 
all of these needs should be fully and satisfactorily sup- 
plied. 

4. That the full supply of all these needs by the right 
use of the provisions of the Creator would afford Man 
unspeakable pleasure for himself and beget inexpressible 
gratitude for his Creator. 

5. That the misuse of these supplies of the Creator or 
the use of adulterations or substitutes for them, would 
not only be unsatisfying, but would render the needs, or 
need-cells, themselves, abnormal and beget disease, pain 
and suffering. 

6. That a complete non-use of these supplies of the 
Creator for the needs of the body would result in pain, 
torment and dissolution of the body. 



Ill 

The Evil Results from the Misuse of the True 
Supplies for the Needs of the Body or from the 
Use of Adulterations of or Substitutes for 
Them 

The first four of the preceding statements are certainly 
true; so also are the last two of them. Because of the 
universal misuse of the true supplies of the Creator or 
the inordinate use of adulterations of, or substitutes for 
them, no man has a satisfactory supply for all of the 
needs of his body and most men are wanting in an ade- 
quate supply of all of them. Such has been the condition 
of Man for thousands of years, as history tells us. 

And further, while the Creator has evidently permitted 
Man to exercise dominion over the earth and the sea and 
all therein, as far back as human history goes, and now 
Man is apparently entering upon the dominion of the air, 
yet with all this, his condition is little bettered, if at all. 
His bodily needs continue to go on as they have so long 
gone on — imperfectly supplied, or supplied in an unsatis- 
factory manner. 

As a consequence, Man is not enjoying the full measure 
of pleasure and happiness evidently designed for him by 
his Creator. 

Indeed, Man often chooses hurtful adulterations of the 
true supplies, or worse substitutes for his pressing bodily 
needs when the true supplies are available for them. 

Suffering from the inordinate use of hurtful, stale or 
contaminated supplies for his bodily needs, Man was im- 

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MISUSE OF TRUE SUPPLIES 15 

pelled from time immemorial to demand fresh air, fresh 
water, fresh food, etc. 

But now, suffering from worse adulterations of true 
supplies, or worse substitutes for them, he is impelled to 
demand, in no uncertain manner, pure air, pure water, 
and pure food. While this is ostensibly the demand of 
the scientist, the physician, and the state, it is in reality 
the irrepressible demand of the needs or need-cells of the 
body. 

At present there is not a man on the earth with a per- 
fect body, nor has there been for thousands of years. 
The blood, the life of the body, in the very heart, has be- 
come impure, and has in it the elements of disease and 
dissolution. 

The great majority of men have bodies with chronic 
disabilities inherited or brought upon them by themselves. 
Millions of men suffer almost constantly from the dis- 
eased condition of their bodies. In accordance with the 
imperfect or diseased condition of the body is the imper- 
fection of the needs or need-cells of the body and vice 
versa, and as a consequence the curtailment of the plea- 
sures afforded the body by the supplies of the Creator. 

All this is manifestly contrary to the purpose and will 
of the Creator, since it is evident that His design, in form- 
ing Man with so many needs and providing for them such 
abundant, adaptable and satisfying supplies, was to render 
Man the greatest possible pleasure, and beget for Himself 
the greatest glory. It doubtless has been believed by 
Man that all this imperfection that has come to the body, 
and its consequences, could have been prevented by the 
all-powerful Creator, and even now by His creative abil- 
ity, He could banish all of this imperfection and disease ; 



16 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

but, certainly He does not do so, and there must be satis- 
factory reasons for it. 

Notwithstanding that this condition of Man has existed 
for so long a time, the Creator has permitted it to go on 
and continue to go on. 

Man's body needs now, doubtless, above every other 
thing : 

1. A complete restoration to a perfect condition. 

2. A perfect prevention against the hurtful effects of 
the misuse of the true supplies or the use of adulterations 
or substitutes for the true supplies provided for it by the 
Creator. 

The Creator has provided partial material restoratives 
or preventatives for the diseased bodies in the form of 
vegetable, mineral and other substances, but no complete 
restorative or preventative has yet been found by Man. 
The Creator has most surely reserved this for Himself 
to do. 

From the study of the more apparent and more familiar 
needs of the body and the provisions for their supply, we 
have learned that as real as are these needs of the body, 
so real are the provisions for their adequate and satis- 
factory supply. We have also learned that their adapta- 
tion to each other (the needs and their supplies) is so 
complete as to demonstrate beyond question that both of 
them were created and fashioned for each other by an 
all- wise, all-just, all-beneficent, and almighty Creator. 
This being so, it follows, without argument, that for all 
of the needs of the body, whether we know them or not, 
there are adequate and satisfactory provisions made by 
the Creator and adapted in every particular for their com- 
plete supply. 



IV 

The Needs of the Soul and Their Supplies 

The most of this study hitherto has been devoted to the 
needs of the body, and the provisions for their supply. 
This has been done because they are material, finite and 
temporal, and are, therefore, much more easily considered 
and understood. This study of the body will enable us 
to make a more accurate and satisfactory study of the 
soul, its needs and the provisions for their supply, than 
could otherwise be done. 

What is true of the body in this respect is, without 
doubt, true also of the soul, for they are both parts of one 
perfect creation. The soul, however, is infinitely greater 
than the body. Its needs, therefore, and the provisions 
for their adequate supply must be infinitely greater than 
those of, or pertaining to, the body. We cannot under- 
stand them because they are beyond our comprehension. 
Without doubt, however, these infinite needs of the soul, 
and infinite provisions for their complete supply, are just 
as real and just as completely adapted to each other as 
those of the body; because they were created and 
fashioned for each other by the same all-wise, all-just, 
all beneficent and almighty Creator. 

If, by any means, therefore, we may discover any real 
needs of the soul, we may be absolutely sure that there are 
adequate provisions by the Creator for their complete 
supply, however great they may be. 

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18 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

The Following Are Some of the More Apparent and 
Indisputable Needs of the Soul: 

1. An endless life of perfect love, joy, peace and glory. 

2. Boundless, all-satisfying, incontestable, ever-avail- 
able, and everlasting possessions. 

3. Absolutely true, unselfish, congenial, and transparent 
personal relationships, always abounding in words and 
acts of loving kindness. 

4. A home or abiding place (condition) of indescrib- 
able attractiveness, comfort and loveliness, and full of 
superlative joy and delight. 

5. Ruling with unobstructed justice and harmony 
amidst surpassing splendor and glory. 

6. An all-inclusive and perfect government, wherein 
the governing and the governed would be absolutely one 
in purpose, plan and execution; wherein the interests 
of all would be sacredly guarded and inviolably secure; 
and wherein the needs of all would be provided for with- 
out limit, and constantly supplied to their utmost capacity 
with ever-unerring certainty. 

7. A supreme Governor, all- wise, all- just, all-beneficent 
and almighty; in fact, a perfect governor — none other 
than the Creator, Himself, who alone knows all the needs 
of Man and all the provisions for their adequate supply. 
He must also have a perfect (sinless) human nature, 
taken upon Himself or in Himself as a medium of com- 
mon approach, intercourse, understanding and of cooper- 
ation with Man. 

A brief analysis of these needs of the soul, above men- 
tioned, will help to demonstrate their reality. If they are 
real, the provisions for their complete supply, perfectly 
adapted and satisfying to them, are just as real. 



NEEDS OF THE SOUL 19 

An Endless Life of Perfect Love, Joy, Peace and 
Glory. It goes without argument, that there is nothing a 
man values more than his life. "All that a man hath will 
he give for his life." There is no time in his life, as far 
as length is concerned, when a man would not dread 
death, and contend for his life, or in other words, when a 
man would be willing to give up his life. Hence, he 
would desire above any other thing an endless life. Many 
things, however, render life miserable, on account of 
which a man would not hesitate to part with it. There 
are innumerable instances when men, for one or more 
unbearable causes, have either put an end to their earthly 
lives, or tried to do so. Man needs happiness also, almost 
as much as life itself. It is unnecessary for me to say 
that a man needs love, joy, peace and glory quite as much 
as life itself. In a very real sense they are indispensable 
to a contented life. 

There is no time when a man would willingly part with 
any or all of them. He might be willing to give up one 
state or condition of love, joy, peace or glory for what he 
considered a higher state or condition of the same, but his 
ultimate desire would be a state or condition of perfect 
love, joy, peace and glory. To such a condition of abso- 
lute enjoyment, he would ever cling and from it he would 
never willingly consent to be separated. 

Without hesitation, we may say, therefore, that one of 
the chief needs of the soul is an endless life of perfect 
love, joy, peace and glory. 

2. Boundless, All-Satisfying, Incontestable, Ever-Avail- 
able, and Everlasting Possessions. The need of Man for 
possessions manifests itself very early in his life. The 
manifestation of this need is ever multiplied by the ac- 



20 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

quisition of its supplies. If a man owned the whole 
world, and all that is in it, that would awaken his need 
or desire for many worlds. If he owned all the worlds in 
space, that would come far short of his need of posses- 
sion. It is not within the power of Man, in his present 
condition, to calculate with the higher mathematics what 
would satisfy the soul's need of possessions. In a word, 
the possessions needed by the soul must be boundless. 
There are undesirable possessions. There are possessions 
that would be a burden. All possessions must have a 
satisfying quality to meet in any degree whatever the 
soul's need of them. But, to meet in full the soul's need 
of these possessions, they must be all-satisfying. How- 
ever boundless the possessions, or satisfying they may be, 
ownership must be absolutely sure or they may be dis- 
turbed or eventually lost. In a word, the title to these 
possessions must be incontestable. If these possessions 
were in such condition that for few or many times the 
soul could not have use of them or enjoy them, the need 
of the soul would be only partially met. To meet the 
constant, pressing need of the soul, these possessions 
must be ever-available. If these possessions, with all of 
their surpassingly good qualities, are essential to meet in 
full the need of the soul for a short or long time, they 
are essential to meet the need of the soul for all time, as 
the need of the soul does not change. In fact, the pos- 
sessions must be everlasting. 

3. Absolutely True, Unselfish, Congenial, and Trans- 
parent Personal Relationships, Always Abounding in 
Words and Acts of Loving Kindness. However perfect 
and satisfactory other things may be, personal relation- 
ships must be true, unselfish and congenial. Moreover, 



NEEDS OF THE SOUL 21 

there must be no doubt as to their real character. Hence, 
they must be transparent. To meet, therefore, in full 
measure the need of the soul, and to afford it perfect hap- 
piness, these personal relationships must be absolutely 
true, unselfish, congenial and transparent. The outward 
and constant manifestations of such personal relation- 
ships could, and must, be nothing less than words and 
acts of loving kindness. 

4. A Home or Abiding Place {Condition) of Indescrib- 
able Attractiveness, Comfort and Loveliness, and Full of 
Superlative Joy and Delight. All right-thinking and 
right-acting persons strive to make their homes attractive, 
comfortable and lovely; and to fill them with joy and de- 
light. No homes on the earth, hitherto, have attained 
their ideals. When the need of the soul in this particular 
is fully met, then only will the ideals be realized. Then 
will the home be one of indescribable attractiveness, com- 
fort and loveliness; and will be filled with superlative 
joy and delight. 

5. Ruling with Unobstructed Justice and Harmony 
amidst Surpassing Splendor and Glory. The desire to 
rule is natural to Man. It is inborn. It manifests itself 
in many ways. All along with this natural desire of Man 
to rule is his desire for attractive surroundings, honor 
and glory. In Man's present condition, his efforts to rule 
are attended with innumerable hindrances, in many cases* 
so great as to completely nullify the attractive surround- 
ings and all that pertains to them. When the need of the 
soul to rule is fully met, it will be with unobstructed 
justice and harmony, and amidst surpassing splendor and 
glory. 

6. An All-Inclusive and Perfect Government, Wherein 



22 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

the Governing and the Governed Would Be Absolutely 
One in Purpose, Plan, and Execution; Wherein the In- 
terests of All Would Be Sacredly Guarded and Inviolably 
Secure; and Wherein the Needs of All Would Be Pro- 
vided for Without Limit, and Constantly Supplied to 
Their Utmost Capacity with Ever-Unerring Certainty. 
There is perhaps nothing that a man is more concerned 
about than government, because he meets it wherever he 
goes, and in whatever he does. It often interferes with his 
supposed necessary pleasures and interests. Every man 
wants more or less included or taken out of the govern- 
ment of which he is a part. Everywhere in the earth he 
is more or less engaged in helping to construct or over- 
throw governments, peaceably if he can, forcibly if he 
must. Notwithstanding all that has been done with all 
the knowledge gained from the experience of the past, 
or with the best scientific knowledge of the present, there 
is not a single satisfactory government upon the earth. If 
this be true concerning the governments above referred to, 
which have to do with things in general, and may be 
changed from time to time, what must that government 
be, to afford perfect satisfaction, which has to do with 
every need of the human soul, and which can never be 
changed? To meet, therefore, all the needs of the souls 
of all men, there must be an all-inclusive and perfect gov- 
ernment. Rulers in human governments are too much 
out of touch and sympathy with all over whom they 
exercise authority. The rank and file of all ruled-over are 
likewise out of touch and sympathy with their rulers. 
There is no satisfactory common ground of understand- 
ing, sympathy, and cooperation. They are suspicious of 
each other, hypercritical, and antagonistic. A change is 



NEEDS OF THE SOUL 23 

then made, if possible, only to go through the same unsat- 
isfactory experience again. The need of the soul is that 
the governing and governed must be absolutely one in 
purpose, plan, and execution. Under human govern- 
ments, there are few interests that are secure. Most 
interests are guarded by the individuals or combination of 
individuals concerned. In their efforts to guard their 
own interests they neglect the interests of others. The 
interests of others, in fact, are not only neglected but are 
interfered with. In numberless cases, the interests of 
the weak are not only ignored, but despoiled by the strong 
with impunity. All this is absolutely contrary to the 
needs of the soul, that all interests must be sacredly 
guarded and inviolably secure. One need of the soul 
unfulfilled would mar the happiness of that soul. One 
need of a great number of souls would mar the com- 
munity of happiness in proportion to the number of souls 
thus affected. When all the needs of all the souls are 
only partially fulfilled, complete happiness is impossible. 
When, however, all the needs of one soul go unsupplied, 
there is absolute distress that cannot be mitigated. If all 
the needs of a large number of souls go unsupplied there 
is distress multiplied as many times more than the one 
as there are individuals thus affected, plus the added dis- 
tress from each other. 

And further, if all the needs of all souls go unsupplied, 
there would be general distress, despair and torment, 
and there is not language to describe the terrible effects 
upon these souls. It must be remembered that the soul 
is not like the body in regard to its existence. Deprive 
the body of all the things necessary to supply its needs, 
and dissolution takes place. Not so with the soul. It is 



24 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

not subject to dissolution. It exists forever. Conse- 
quently, if deprived of all the provisions for the supply 
of its needs, it would be in distress and torment forever. 
Hence, there can be no doubt that a government would 
be essential, wherein the needs of all would be provided 
for without limit, and constantly supplied to their utmost 
capacity with unerring certainty. 

J. A Supreme Governor, All-Wise, All-Just, All-Benef- 
icent and Almighty — in Fact, a Perfect Governor — None 
Other than the Creator, Himself, Who Alone Knows All 
the Needs of Man, and All the Provisions for Their Ade- 
quate Supply, Since They Both Are His Creations. He 
Must Also Have a Perfect (Sinless) Human Nature, 
Taken upon Himself, or in Himself as a Medium of Com- 
mon Approach, Intercourse, Understanding, and Coopera- 
tion with Man. If men are dissatisfied with governments, 
they are much more dissatisfied with governors. The 
constant changes of governors occurring in all nations on 
the earth, occasioned by the dissatisfaction of the gov- 
erned, when general matters only are concerned, indicate 
clearly that when all the interests and needs of the soul 
are concerned there must be a supreme governor, all-wise, 
all- just, all-beneficent, and almighty — in fact, none other 
than the Creator, Himself, who alone knows all the needs 
of Man, and all the provisions for their adequate supply. 
The infinite difference between the Creator and His 
creature — Man — renders it imperative that the Creator 
should enter into human nature or take humanity into 
Himself to make a common and satisfactory condition of 
approach and communication. Without this, there could 
not be that perfect understanding and cooperation be- 
tween the Creator and His creature — Man — as far as 



NEEDS OF THE SOUL 25 

Man is concerned, that would be essential to the perfect 
administration of such a government. 

All over the world, and in all ages of the world, men 
have tried to make the Creator real to their sight or touch 
by making images of Him in wood and stone, or in pic- 
tures after the likeness of Man. It is difficult for any of 
us to think of the Creator as differing much in appearance 
from the human, which is the highest in creation, and 
must be nearest to the Creator in personality and likeness. 
For this reason, it would seem to be essential to Man's 
approach to, and communication with, the Creator, that 
the Creator assume the perfect human nature as the 
medium between Himself and Man. 

I have not attempted to prove by argument the real 
existence of the particular needs of the soul, which I have 
singled out for illustration. It is not necessary. The 
slightest consideration of them leaves no doubt of their 
reality and infinity. What is true as to the reality and 
infinity of the needs of the soul, already specified, is just 
as true of other needs of the soul that could be specified, 
as well as of numberless other needs of the soul that 
Man in his present condition is not able to discern. 

As already demonstrated, the real needs of the 
body have provisions for their supply by the Creator, 
abundant in quantity and perfectly adapted and satisfying 
to them. So also must the real needs of the soul have 
provisions for their supply, by the Creator, abun- 
dant in quantity and perfectly adapted and satisfying to 
them. It has been clearly shown that the supply of the 
needs of the body by the provisions of the Creator 
afforded pleasure unspeakable and that the nonsupply 
begat pain and torment. So also must it be with the soul. 



26 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

When its needs are supplied with the provisions of the 
Creator for them, there will be joy inexpressible; but, 
when they go unsupplied by the provisions of the Creator, 
there will be sorrow and torment. As it was previously 
shown that adulterations and substitutes for the provi- 
sions of the Creator to meet the needs of the body, not 
only failed to afford a satisfactory supply, but rather in- 
jured the body and its real needs, so also adulterations or 
substitutes for the provisions of the Creator to meet the 
needs of the soul, will not only fail to supply the needs 
of the soul, but will injure the soul, and its real needs. 

The provisions of the Creator for the needs of the body 
are not only real, but they are tangible and discernible by 
the bodily senses, and their reality is thus rendered self- 
evident. But the provisions of the Creator for the supply 
of the needs of the soul, while just as real as those for 
the body, are neither tangible, nor discernible by the 
bodily senses, and cannot be understood as material things 
are understood. 

Indeed, the provisions of the Creator for the needs of 
the soul have not and cannot be discovered and under- 
stood by the human mind in its present condition, unaided 
by the Creator. Hence, in this connection, the provisions 
for the satisfying of the needs of the soul, though real, 
cannot be specified, but will be, in another connection, 
later on. 



V 

Supplying the Spiritual or Soul Needs of the 
Natural Man Infinitely More Unsatisfactory 
than That of His Bodily Needs 

We have learned from the study of Man that in his 
present natural condition his bodily needs, though only 
physical, finite and temporal, are as a rule very inade- 
quately satisfied — contrary to the evident design of his 
Creator. 

This is most surely and unquestionably true, notwith- 
standing the abundant, perfectly adaptable and all-satis- 
fying provisions of the Creator for the supply of these 
needs, and notwithstanding these provisions are so near 
at hand for use, and are so readily and clearly discerned 
and understood by the mind through the bodily senses of 
sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. 

If, therefore, the supply of the physical, finite, and 
temporal needs of the body is so unsatisfactory when the 
provisions of the Creator for their supply are so near and 
so clearly discerned and understood by the mind through 
the bodily senses, how much more unsatisfactory must be 
the supply of the spiritual, infinite, and eternal needs of 
the soul, when the spiritual sense of these needs, through 
which only the mind can at all discern and understand the 
spiritual, infinite and eternal provisions of the Creator for 
their supply, is to all appearances dead. 

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28 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Deprived of their spiritual sense, the needs of the soul 
are abnormal. They do not long for the spiritual provi- 
sions of the Creator for their supply, but blindly crave 
for a satisfactory supply of some kind, which is never 
realized. 

Deprived of their spiritual sense, the needs of the soul 
do not afford the mind the means through which to dis- 
cern and understand the spiritual, infinite and eternal 
provisions of the Creator for their complete supply. 

Accordingly, the mind of Man, ignorant of the true 
provisions of the Creator for the soul's needs, is con- 
stantly and vainly exercising itself in a thousand ways to 
provide these needs with a satisfactory supply. All 
manner of studies, entertainments, social attractions, and 
amusements, (some of which might be of great benefit 
and pleasure when rightly used) are thus vainly afforded 
the needs of the soul for their satisfaction by the natural 
mind. 

Among these studies may be noted: I. Ingenious and 
plausible philosophies of every kind; 2. Fictitious crea- 
tions of the mind with the widest range of the imagina- 
tion, presented in story through the printed page, or in 
drama and comedy on the public stage; 3. Entrancing 
music and captivating pictures that charm the ear and 
the eye ; not to speak of the numberless corrupt and hurt- 
ful entertainments and amusements that everywhere 
abound. 

All of these are but mockery instead of satisfactory 
supplies for the spiritual, infinite and eternal needs of 
the soul. 

Since, therefore, all the studies and fictitious creations 
of the natural mind have never sufficed to satisfy even the 



SUPPLYING THE SOUL NEEDS 29 

abnormal needs of the soul — Alan has from time im- 
memorial striven to satisfy these spiritual, infinite and 
eternal needs of the soul by the accumulation, disposition 
and use of the material, finite and temporal provisions of 
the Creator for the needs of the body, which has never 
been done, nor ever can be. 

Thus, from the very nature of the needs to be supplied, 
and of the provisions sought to supply them, a true and 
satisfactory supply is an impossibility. 

However, by his strenuous and persistent efforts to 
accomplish this impossible task, Man has created a de- 
mand for these provisions far beyond what they were 
made for, namely, the needs of the body. In consequence, 
there has been persistent an irrepressible struggle on the 
part of all men in almost every way to acquire these pro- 
visions for their own use and advantage. In this struggle, 
the strong secure more than they need and the weak less 
than their needs require. Instead of satisfaction and hap- 
piness as a result, there have ever been, and are now, dis- 
appointments, misunderstandings, contentions, fights and 
wars between individuals, communities, states, and na- 
tions. 

The foregoing paragraph was written at least two years 
before the beginning of the present unparalleled war be- 
tween the nations of Europe. Because of the misunder- 
standings that led to it, the unexampled destruction of life 
and property effected by it, and the unsatisfactory results 
attending it in every way, nothing in all history has 
furnished so complete an illustration of the statement 
made in the preceding paragraph. 



VI 

A Complete Revelation to Man By His Creator an 
Absolute Necessity 

The whole human race, as far back as Man alone can 
trace it, till now, has been involved in this uncertain and 
unsatisfying condition of being. All men, at some time 
or other, under this intense and continuous strain, have 
inquired of themselves, or of others, with all the intensity 
of their being: "How did we come into existence ?" 
"Why are these things so?" "Can we be delivered from 
them?" "What will the end be?" 

For these burning questions there must be satisfactory 
answers based upon good and sufficient reasons. Man, 
of himself, has never been able to find out the real cause 
of this condition of being and understand it, much less has 
he been able to make it plain to others. The Creator has 
endowed Man with a consciousness to know and under- 
stand in part, and a conscience for a monitor to urge him 
to choose the good and avoid the evil. But nothing short 
of a revelation from his Creator can answer satisfactorily 
these all-important questions. 

While Man in his present condition, and for thousands 
of years past, has been able of himself, with the powers 
afforded him by his Creator, to understand to a very re- 
markable degree the material creation, its laws and his 
relation to them, and make almost unlimited use of the 
same, yet, of the origin of the material world, and of him- 

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A COMPLETE REVELATION A NECESSITY 31 

self, he has virtually no definite knowledge. Of himself, 
he has no certain knowledge how he came into his present 
deplorable condition, nor does he know how to be deliv- 
ered from it. Some of the most scholarly men, after the 
most laborious research, have rejected the very idea of 
the creation of the material universe and of Man. 

Without doubt, the Creator is most concerned about 
His creation that it may accomplish what it was designed 
by Him to do; particularly about Man — the chief and 
dominant factor of the earthly creation. Unless Man had 
a clear knowledge of his Creator, His purposes, and of 
himself, as well as of his own creation and condition, the 
Creator, Himself, would be unable to accomplish His 
purposes with Man. Man, in his ignorance, would lay all 
the blame of his failures and sufferings to the causes that 
brought about his existence, the existence of the things 
about him, as well as all the evils associated with them, 
and that made possible their continuance. 

Accordingly, it would not only be reasonable in the 
highest degree that there should be a revelation from the 
Creator to His creature — Man — of His whole creation, 
about which He, Himself, is most deeply concerned, and 
about which He has all knowledge that would be satis- 
factory in every particular, but it would be absolutely 
essential that such a revelation should have been made to 
Man for the accomplishment of the purposes of the 
Creator, that Man might be able to know these purposes 
and to avail himself of all the benefits provided for him 
by the Creator. 

This revelation should have in itself the evidences of 
genuineness and truthfulness that would characterize 
a revelation from an all-wise, all- just, all-beneficent and 



32 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

almighty Creator to Man, the crowning creature of His 
creation, endowed with such marvelous powers of under- 
standing and boundless capacities for good and evil. 
Among other things that should be made known to Man 
in this revelation are the following: 

i. How the earth and all of its living inhabitants, in- 
cluding Man, were created and provided for, and what 
relation Man sustained to his Creator, and to the Creation 
about him. 

2. The doubtless perfect condition of the whole crea- 
tion, including Man, when completed by the Creator. 

3. How the earth and all its living creatures, including 
Man, lost their primitive, perfect condition. 

4. How Man can get the best out of his present deplor- 
able condition. 

5. How Man can have complete deliverance from this 
evil condition. 

6. What will be the final destiny and condition of Man. 

The Hebrew revelation, contained in what is com- 
monly known as "The Bible," meets completely, not only 
all the above mentioned requirements, but infinitely more. 
It speaks with the authority, certainty, definiteness and 
clearness that at once characterize it as the revelation of 
a perfect Creator. 

As the telescope gives a much brighter and more dis- 
tinct view of the planets and stars visible to the naked 
eye, and brings within the range of clear vision myriads 
of unseen stars and worlds in the limitless spaces beyond, 
so is it with this revelation. With what can be learned 
with convincing certainty by the light of natural reason 
concerning the Creator, the wonderful provisions made 
by Him for the manifold needs of the human body are 



A COMPLETE REVELATION A NECESSITY 33 

rendered absolutely certain by this revelation. Its narra- 
tion overwhelms the mind with the glorious majesty of 
the Creator; the countless number of His provisions for 
all the needs of Man — their endless varieties, their per- 
fectly satisfying qualities. 

It leaves no room for any intelligent, fair-minded and 
sincere person to doubt the existence of a perfect Creator 
and a perfect creation. 

This revelation gives full accounts, first, of the Crea- 
tion, including the creation of Man and the provision 
for all his needs ; second, The fall of Man, with its dread- 
ful consequences; and, third, The salvation for Man in- 
finitely greater than what was lost by his fall. 



VII 

The Revelation of the Creation of the Heaven, of 
the Earth, and of Man 

In the first sentence of this revelation are clearly 
stated the time of the creation — in the beginning; the 
name of the Creator — God, the sum of all that is good; 
and the great extent of the creation — the heaven and the 
earth. The detailed account of the creation in this revela- 
tion amazes and delights the mind, the soul, and the heart 
with the majesty, power, wisdom, and goodness of the 
Creator, when we contemplate the unfolding creations, as 
they spring into existence, and are fashioned for their 
respective purposes by the word and direction of the 
Creator. 

All things necessary to supply the innumerable needs 
of the human body were then provided, without limit in 
quantity, and perfect in adaptation and in satisfying qual- 
ity for these needs, before Man was created. 

These provisions were not only abundant, beyond all 
that the needs of the human body would require, when 
they were created, but their continuance in like abun- 
dance was assured as long as the needs of the body them- 
selves existed. Some of these provisions were created 
indestructible, as the air, and water, and the light, and 
others were made self-propagating, as the grass, the herb, 
and the fruit tree, with the seed in itself, and the fish, the 
fowl, and the animals, in pairs, male and female. All 
of these creations were pronounced good by the Creator, 

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REVELATION OF THE CREATION 35 

and were complete in every way to meet the ends or pur- 
poses for which they were created. 

Man, the masterpiece of the creation, was then formed, 
not only as a perfect creation, but was made in the image 
and likeness of the Creator. Male and female were they 
created, which insured a continuance of Man on the earth. 

28. "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and 
subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, 
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing 
that moveth upon the earth. 

29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb 
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and 
every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; 
to you it shall be for meat. 

30. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl 
of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 
wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for 
meat : and it was so. 

31. And God saw everything that he had made, and, 
behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1 : 28-31). 

Surely, this was a most perfect and delightful condition 
for Man. This, however, was not all. 

8. "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in 
Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 

9. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow 
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; 
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the 
tree of knowledge of good and evil" (Gen. 2 : 8, 9). 

The Creator presented the cattle, the fowl of the air, 
and every beast of the field for his possession, that he 
might give names to them. Accordingly, what he called 
each one of them, that was the name thereof. 



36 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Such a person as Man was then, amidst such earthly 
perfection, afforded such dominion, with such provisions 
for all of his needs, and with such freedom to make use 
of them — altogether, this would certainly seem to be the 
summum bonum of all that could be desired. 

But all this surpassing condition of pleasure and hap- 
piness was more than doubled for Man when the Creator 
formed for him, from bone of his bone and flesh of his 
flesh, a helpmeet whom Man called Woman, for she was 
taken out of Man. Language would fail to express the 
pleasure and happiness of such a relationship under such 
conditions. 

Far above and beyond all this earthly creation about 
them, however, they were made in the image and in the 
likeness of the Creator, which was doubtless the spiritual, 
infinite and eternal nature of Man. This part of Man's 
nature was also possessed of needs or need cells, as pre- 
viously indicated, spiritually speaking, but infinitely 
higher needs than those of his physical nature, and infi- 
nitely greater and more numerous. The supply of these 
needs by the provisions of the Creator would afford not 
only inexpressible pleasure and happiness, but rapturous 
joy and glory. As a climax to all the excellencies thus 
bestowed upon Man by the Creator, he was endowed with 
a sovereign will, including the power of choice with 
responsibility for the exercise of his will and choice. 
This placed Man on the mountain-top of creation. He 
was in the closest relationship with the Creator, not only 
because of his mediatorial dominion over the earth, and 
all of its creatures, but as one who could rule in the 
spiritual world with the Creator Himself. 

This was the condition of Man when the creation was 



REVELATION OF THE CREATION 37 

finished, and when the Creator looked upon all that He 
had made, and pronounced it good. All of Man's needs, 
physical and spiritual, were then overflowingly supplied. 
This was Man's first starting point. Oh, what a condi- 
tion ! Oh, what a starting point ! This, beyond all com- 
parison, transcended evolution from a protoplasm or from 
any creature or existence lower than Man himself. It 
was the work of an all- wise, all- just, all-beneficent, and 
almighty Creator. 

We are told in this revelation that the Creator rested 
on the seventh day, the Sabbath, and hallowed it. What 
a glorious Sabbath must that day have been to the man 
and his wife in that perfect earthly paradise with heaven 
all about them. 

The Sabbath was past. The Creator had done all He 
could for Man to afford him the right start in life. To 
have done more for Man under the circumstances, the 
Creator would have deprived him of the necessary exer- 
cise of his sovereign will, the power of choice and action, 
with which he was endowed, and whereby only he could 
render the greatest service to all the creation about him, 
and glorify the Creator most by such service in His name. 

The man, therefore, must do his part in accordance 
with the purpose of his own creation, and with the will 
of the Creator, to whom he was subject and upon whom 
he was dependent for all the pleasure and joy which he 
had or could have. 

Explicit instructions were given him by the Creator 
about what he might do and what he might not do : "Of 
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of 
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt 
not eat of it : for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou 



38 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

shalt surely die" (Gen. 2: 16, 17). Man was so made 
that he could obey or disobey the Creator at his will. 
If he would obey, his whole body and soul would have 
throbbed with unutterable pleasure and joy because of the 
immediate and abundant supplies provided by the Creator 
for all of his needs, physical and spiritual, conditioned 
upon his obedience. But if he would disobey, he would 
not only not experience such pleasure of body and joy of 
soul, but would lose that higher spiritual life, by which 
only these exquisite experiences were possible, or, in the 
words of the command, he must "surely die." 

When formed by the Creator, Man was perfect in every 
attribute of his creation. He was, however, but a child- 
man, with no experience and no character. His character 
must be formed by his own choice and action, with the 
help of the Creator. Man must have the necessary trials 
to enable him to form his character, good or bad, accord- 
ing to his obedience or disobedience in conforming to the 
will of the Creator. 

What the Creator had then in store for Man with his 
marvelous endowments and capabilities of body, mind and 
soul, (if he had obeyed the command) is not known, since 
it has not been revealed by the Creator. There can be no 
doubt, however, that Man was created with his great 
endowments to fill a most wonderful place in the vast 
kingdom of the Creator, in which he would share beyond 
expression the joy and glory of the Creator. Since Man 
was endowed with a sovereign will, and with the power to 
obey or disobey the Creator, he must be tried with a test 
adequate to the powers and capabilities bestowed upon 
him by the Creator in his creation to prove his absolute 
loyalty to the Creator, and absolute trustfulness in all 



REVELATION OF THE CREATION 39 

things pertaining to the kingdom of the Creator, in the 
face of any temptation whatever to disobey. Until thus 
tried and proved by the most severe tests, Man was not 
trial-proof nor trustworthy, and could have no part or 
share in the great and glorious kingdom of the Creator. 
The clear, positive and definite account of the creation 
of Man, and of his perfect condition when formed by the 
Creator, is certainly what ought to be expected in a 
revelation from the Creator. Likewise, the story of 
Man's downfall, as contained in this revelation, is told in 
the same clear, positive and definite manner. 



VIII 

The Revelation of the Fall of Man with Its 
Dreadful Consequences 

The following is an outline of the story of the downfall 
of Man as contained in the Bible (the Hebrew revela- 
tion) : 

A. The Temptation by Satan, the Fall of Man, and the 
Immediate Punishments. 

The command of the Creator, the Lord God, was: "Of 
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of 
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not 
eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou 
shalt surely die" (Gen. 2: 16, 17). 

The man and woman in their perfect and innocent 
state, as they came from the hand of God, were doubtless 
in full and intimate relationship with God, with each other 
and with all the living creatures of the earth. Doubtless, 
also, it may be said that for a time, however long, they 
dwelt in this earthly paradise in perfect pleasure, happi- 
ness and joy. During this sojourn they enjoyed to the 
full, as God designed that they should, His presence, the 
presence of each other, and of all the delightful things 
of the Garden. Without fear of God or of any creatures, 
as they all were friendly and familiar, the man and 
woman together, or separately, went about through the 
Garden or tarried under the trees with all the needs of 
their bodies and souls, to their fullest capacity, satisfied, 

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REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 41 

They had looked upon all the trees of the Garden with 
great delight, and had eaten the fruit of many of them, 
as they were freely permitted to do, including the fruit 
of the tree of life in the midst of the Garden. 

It is no strain of the imagination to suppose that the 
man and his wife visited the tree of the knowledge of 
good and evil, as it was the only forbidden tree, and was 
accordingly singled out from all the other trees of the 
Garden. They did so, undoubtedly, without desire to eat 
its fruit, as they were forbidden to do, though it may have 
been more attractive than the fruit of the other trees of 
the Garden. 

This certainly did not seem to be a hard trial, as there 
were a hundred or a thousand trees, the perfect fruit of 
which they were privileged to freely eat, and only one 
tree whose fruit they were forbidden to eat. While the 
fruit of this forbidden tree had a three-fold attraction, 
and in this particular may have surpassed the fruit of any 
other tree in the Garden, there was a terrible penalty at- 
tached to the eating of this fruit, or in other words to the 
violation of the command of the Lord God. Thus the en- 
vironment in which they were placed by the Lord God 
would seem overwhelmingly in their favor. It is quite 
reasonable to suppose that the man and his wife passed 
and repassed this tree as they went about in the Garden 
together, or separately, and it may be that they spent time 
pleasantly under its spreading branches, covered with 
beautiful leaves and surpassing fruit. As they beheld the 
tree with its tempting fruit, they might have asked them- 
selves, and each other, "Why are we forbidden to eat such 
very desirable fruit?" In one of those walks about the 
Garden alone, the woman stopped to look at this tree, and 



42 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

possibly to spend some time under its charming branches, 
against which there was no command. Quite likely she 
was charmed with the beauty of the tree and the superi- 
ority of the fruit, and pondered in her heart why they 
were debarred from eating the fruit. While in this frame 
of mind, she was approached by an evil spirit of super- 
human knowledge and power, who had entered into the 
serpent, the most subtle of the beasts of the field. With 
a fascination more attractive than all the beauty and 
charm of the Garden, he engaged the attention of the 
woman. 

W 7 hy Satan chose to tempt the woman first is not stated 
in the Revelation, and is not made evident by all the at- 
tending circumstances. It may have been because the 
woman was of finer mold than the man, since Man was 
made of the dust of the earth, but the woman was made 
of a part of Alan — a second creation, and accordingly of 
finer texture. As such, it would possibly be more diffi- 
cult to turn her away from the command of the Lord 
God. Therefore, she must be won over first, else the 
scheme of the arch-tempter would surely fail. Or, the 
woman may have been regarded the weaker of the two. 
By deceiving her, Satan would have her cooperation in 
tempting the man. Whatever may have been his design, 
Satan sought to deceive the woman first in a very subtle 
manner, and with an overpowering fascination, that the 
woman with all her glorious environment was unable to 
withstand. 

While the woman was probably pondering in her mind 
why the fruit of this tree was forbidden them, she may 
have gone farther in her consideration of the command of 
the Lord God and its penalty than she ought. She may 



REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 43 

have regarded it an unnecessary abridgment of their 
liberty. Be this as it may, it was at this point of possible 
least resistance that the serpent (Satan) addressed her, 
saying: "Yea, hath God (the Creator) said ye shall not 
eat of every tree of the garden?" (Gen. 3: 1), with such 
an emphasis as to belittle the command of God (the 
Creator). With ready response the woman answered: 
"We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But 
of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, 
God (the Creator) hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, 
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die" (Gen. 3:2, 3). In 
her answer the woman showed that they knew the com- 
mand of the Lord God and the penalty attached to it. 
Her statement of it, however, was more prohibitive than 
that of the Lord God for she added "neither shall ye 
touch it." This expression of the awful penalty with her 
own mouth doubtless made a deep impression upon her 
mind and soul, and possibly it was hard for her to recon- 
cile such a fearful penalty from the all-loving God for 
such an apparently small offence. This state of her mind 
emboldened the serpent (Satan) to take advantage of the 
woman, possibly wishing in her heart that such a penalty 
might not follow the eating of the forbidden fruit, by 
saying unto her: "Ye shall not surely die" (Gen. 3:4). 

Before the woman could answer this direct contradic- 
tion of the words of the penalty affixed to the command 
of the Lord God, the serpent with another false assertion 
quickly and artfully diverted the mind of the woman 
from the contemplation of a dreadful penalty to the an- 
ticipation of a glorious promise and reward: "For God 
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes 
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good 



44 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

and evil." "When the woman," under this anticipation, 
"saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was 
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one 
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat" (Gen. 
3 : 5, 6). Whether "her husband with her" meant nearby 
in calling distance or with her somewhere in the Garden, is 
not definitely specified. It is unlikely that her husband 
was so near as to hear any part or all of the conversation 
between the serpent and his wife. It is not stated that 
the serpent told the woman to induce her husband to eat 
of the fruit of the tree. Under the hallucination of the 
promise of the serpent, as she was led to understand it, 
she hastened to her husband and told him of the interview 
between herself and the serpent. Most likely she empha- 
sized the promise of great reward that would follow the 
eating of the fruit, instead of the punishment threatened, 
since, without harm, she had eaten of the fruit. Because 
the penalty as stated by the Lord God was not immedi- 
ately visited upon her, she was probably encouraged to 
believe that the contradiction of the serpent was true, and 
not only so, but that the promised reward made by him 
was also true. Since the man and the woman were made 
acquainted by experience with the perfect character of 
God and His boundless goodness to them, they were left 
alone to meet the temptation by faith. Neither separ- 
ately nor together did they seek the counsel of God in the 
temptation to disobey His very explicit command. 

Under such circumstances the woman "gave also unto 
her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of 
them both were opened, and they knew that they were 
naked" (Gen. 3:6, 7). The penalty of the violated com- 
mand was then being visited upon them. There was no 



REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 45 

need that any one should tell them what had taken place. 
They knew they were transgressors of God's righteous 
command, and that they were naked. Truly, they were 
as gods knowing good and evil, but they were not gods, 
but rather ungrateful and disobedient creatures of an 
all-good and loving God. They had taken their first les- 
son in the pursuit of the knowledge of evil. It was a 
most costly lesson. Their perfect spiritual lives had de- 
parted from them, or in other words, they were spiritually 
dead. "They knew that they were naked ; and they sewed 
fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons" (Gen. 
3:7). They had lost their spiritual innocence in the 
transgression of the righteous command of the Lord 
God. In their shame they resorted to temporary and 
material concealment of their conscious nakedness. With 
toil and sorrow they made for themselves material cover- 
ings to hide their bodily nakedness. It was of no avail, 
however, for they were spiritually naked also. When 
they heard the voice of God walking in the Garden in the 
cool of the day (the day in which they ate the fruit of the 
forbidden tree) they were ashamed and afraid. The 
immediate self -execution of the definitely expressed pen- 
alty of the violated commandment of God clearly demon- 
strated to them that He meant exactly what He had said. 
They were now aware that His righteousness was as cer- 
tain as His goodness, which they had enjoyed so bounti- 
fully. Hence, their fear of God was now as great as 
their joy in Him before their fall. Since there were no 
limitations expressed in or with the statement of the pen- 
alty, there was no ground for hope for any relief from 
their suffering the full measure of the penalty of the vio- 
lated law. 



46 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

B. The Lord God Reckoned with the Offenders and 
Administered the Punishments. 

God had not interfered with the man or the woman 
in the free exercise of their sovereign will and choice, 
when they were tempted to disobey His righteous com- 
mandment, with its dreadful penalty affixed. But He ap- 
peared without delay to the man and the woman in their 
fallen condition that He might in righteousness take 
account of their transgression, and mete out punishment 
according to their guilt, but in love and mercy provide 
and declare a complete salvation from the results of their 
disobedience. "And Adam and his wife hid themselves 
from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of 
the garden" (Gen. 3:8). 

Who of us does not remember the keen sense of shame 
that possessed us when we first knowingly sinned against 
God's righteous commandment? But what must have 
been their shame with such a change from a perfect con- 
dition of innocence to that of an ungrateful violation of 
the righteous command of the all-loving God and with 
such a dreadful penalty in process of execution, as they 
heard the voice of God walking in the Garden. This, to 
a considerable degree, has been the experience of all who 
have knowingly violated the righteous and necessary laws 
of God from the sin in Eden till the present time. 1. 
Their eyes were opened to see their nakedness. 2. They 
tried to cover it over with aprons of fig leaves; but at 
the hearing of the voice of God they hastened to hide 
themselves from His presence. As the aprons of fig 
leaves could not hide the nakedness of Adam and his wife 
from God, neither could the trees of the Garden conceal 
them from the sight of His all-seeing eyes (Psalm 139). 



REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 47 

"And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, 
Where art thou?" (Gen. 3:9). This is the unavoidable 
call of the living God that has through the ages summoned 
everyone from their hiding place, who has knowingly- 
violated His righteous and necessary commands. This 
direct and exacting call brought forth an immediate and 
all inclusive response from Adam in four distinct phrases : 
"I heard thy voice in the garden — I was afraid — because 
I was naked — and I hid myself" (Gen. 3:10). Such 
also will be the response of every knowing guilty one as 
he comes from his hiding place to meet the Lord God. 
The Lord God said unto him: "Who told thee that thou 
wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I 
commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" (Gen. 
3 : 11). There was no need that any one should tell Adam 
of his nakedness. His eyes were opened to see the evil 
done, and the sting of conscience was his own tormentor. 

To mitigate the evil he had done, the man laid the 
blame upon another by saying: "The woman whom thou 
gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did 
eat" (Gen. 3: 12). How much that is like a guilty man 
today. 

"And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this 
that thou hast done?" (Gen. 3:13). The woman was 
silent in her guilt and nakedness until she was spoken to 
by the Lord God. She did not deny her guilt or dispute 
the accusation of Adam; but, she laid the blame upon 
another by saying: "The serpent beguiled me, and I did 
eat" (Gen. 3: 13). 

Both the man and the woman confessed their disobe- 
dience, but with a palliating excuse. How like the guilty 
men and women of history and of today. 



48 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

As the testimony was all in — self-confessed — and as 
both the man and the woman declared that they had eaten 
of the forbidden tree, there was only one thing then for 
an all-righteous God to do — to execute the sentence, since 
He had said to Adam : "But of the tree of the knowledge 
of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day 
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen. 
2: 17). How much was involved in this penalty, no lan- 
guage can tell. 

Adam and his wife had already passed through a great 
and dreadful change for the worse. 

God did not ask the serpent why he had beguiled the 
woman, for doubtless while it was the most subtle of the 
beasts of the field, its action was a very inconsiderable 
part in the guilt of this transaction. The arch-evil spirit 
— Satan — who made use of the serpent was the arch- 
oflender and guilty one. 

The Lord God then proceeded to state the offences and 
pronounce sentence upon the offenders. And He said 
unto the serpent: "Because thou hast done this, thou art 
cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; 
upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all 
the days of thy life : And I will put enmity between thee 
and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it 
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" 
(Gen. 3:14, 15). 

As far as the sentence refers to the serpent in its rela- 
tion to the other non-intelligent creatures specified, it is 
certainly fully carried out to the letter today, as it has 
been for thousands of years, or indeed doubtless since 
the time the sentence was pronounced. As the serpent 
was used to induce the woman to eat the very desirable, 



REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 49 

but forbidden, fruit, the sentence pronounced against the 
serpent included the most undesirable food — dust — for the 
serpent, not merely for once, but for all the days of its 
life, and without doubt for its seed. "And dust shall be 
the serpent's meat" (Isa. 65 : 25). 

As far also as the sentence refers to the serpent and its 
relation to the woman, to her seed and to its seed, so also 
it explicitly applies to the relation of the seed of the 
woman and of the serpent today ; as it has for thousands 
of years and doubtless from the time the sentence was 
executed. "It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise 
his heel." The relation and treatment of the seed of the 
woman and of the serpent in all history is a constant ful- 
filment of the sentence. This treatment is instinctively 
done, without even the knowledge of why it is done. 

In this very significant statement is implied, in a meta- 
phorical sense, that the seed of the woman, Jesus Christ, 
would bruise the head of "that old serpent, the Devil, 
and Satan," who was the chief offender against God and 
Man (Isa. 7: 14; Isa. 9:6, 7; Luke 2:6-11 ; Rom. 16:20; 
and Rev. 20: 1-10). 

The Lord God said unto the woman: "I will greatly 
multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou 
shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy 
husband, and he shall rule over thee" (Gen. 3 : 16). 

All history confirms the absolute correctness of this 
condition of woman and her relation to her husband. 
Never in the history of the world or in any country has 
woman had greater freedom and rights than now in 
America — when and where this sentence is being fulfilled 
to the letter. 

17. "And unto Adam he said: Because thou hast 



50 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of 
the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt 
not eat of it : cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow 
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; 

18. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; 
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field ; 

19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou 
taken : for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" 
(Gen. 3:17-19). 

As Adam, contrary to the command of the Lord God, 
chose to satisfy the need of his body by eating of the for- 
bidden fruit, his punishment was to consist largely of the 
manner and condition in which he would have to secure 
food for his body in the future. 

22. "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become 
as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put 
forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, 
and live for ever : 

23. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the 
garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was 
taken. 

24. So he drove out the man : and he placed at the east 
of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword 
which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of 
life" (Gen. 3: 22-24). 

Adam had in fact become as God, knowing good and 
evil; but, unlike God, he had gained this knowledge of 
evil by disobeying the direct and wise command of the 
Lord God. He was no longer free to enjoy the perfect 
provisions of the Garden of Eden, which the Lord God 
had especially prepared for him and which he so perfectly 
enjoyed during his obedience of the command of the 
Lord God. 



REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 51 

The dissatisfaction of Adam with the command of the 
Lord God and his violation of it while in the Garden of 
Eden resulted in his expulsion from the Garden. 

His condition in the Garden while loyal to the Lord 
God was infinitely better than it was outside of the 
Garden. While in the Garden of Eden, Adam was (1) 
in full possession of all his powers of life, spiritual, 
mental, physical and social, with which he was endowed 
by his Creator; (2) in full communion with the Lord 
God; (3) he enjoyed undisputed and harmonious domin- 
ion over the earth and all of its creatures ; and (4) all of 
his needs were perfectly supplied by the Lord God with 
absolute freedom on his part from the discomforts of 
toil, pain, and sorrow. 

When out of the Garden, Adam was (1) bereft of his 
spiritual powers of life; and (2) was out of communion 
with the Lord God; (3) while his dominion over the 
earth and its creatures was not taken from him, it was in- 
harmonious and beset with all manner of obstacles and 
difficulties ; and (4) all his needs were pressing and most 
inadequately supplied at the cost of his personal toil, pain 
and sorrow. His continued disobedience for a consider- 
able time, doubtless in many ways, prevented the Lord 
God from blessing and affording him the help needed in 
his struggle for existence and happiness, as He (the Lord 
God) most certainly wanted to do. 

And further: Most likely his selfishness, a most direct 
result of disobedience, impelled him for a considerable 
time to deal unfairly with the Lord God in securing the 
provisions for the supply of his own constant and imper- 
ative needs. This, of necessity, was bound to react to his 
own disadvantage, which it undoubtedly did in multiply- 



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ing his toil and curtailing the very limited supplies for 
his many crying needs, and all attended with many disap- 
pointments and sorrows. 

C. The Dreadful Results of Man's Fall Entailed upon 
His Posterity Down to the Present Time. 

What was true of Adam after his disobedience and ex- 
pulsion from the Garden of Eden has been almost invari- 
ably true of the whole race of mankind which has de- 
scended from him; and in the majority of cases accom- 
panied with like immediate and serious results. 

Separated from the Lord God, all men have been com- 
pelled with personal toil, pain and sorrow to secure the 
provisions of the Creator for the supply of their own con- 
stant and demanding needs. 

Their continued disobedience prevented the Lord God 
from blessing them and helping them, as He otherwise 
would have done in their struggles of life. Their selfish- 
ness, as many times greater than that of the one Man 
Adam as there have been more individuals concerned, not 
only impelled them in a corresponding degree to deal un- 
fairly with the Lord God in securing the provisions of the 
Creator for the supply of their ever-recurring and press- 
ing needs, but impelled them in like manner to deal 
unfairly with each other and among themselves in almost 
every way, Man with Man, class with class, organization 
with organization, state with state, nation with nation. 
This unfair dealing has ever resulted in misunderstand- 
ings, disputes, contentions, fights, and wars, in which the 
weak are invariably the sufferers at the hands of the 
strong ; as all historical records attest. 

Reference to several notable records in the early history 
of mankind will serve to illustrate what I have stated: 



REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 53 

(1) The continued disobedience of Adam and his es- 
trangement from the Lord God prevented the blessing and 
help of the Lord God that would have been bestowed upon 
him. (2) Because of Adam's instruction or non-instruc- 
tion and his example, his first born son, Cain, followed in 
his footsteps of disobedience and estrangement from the 
Lord God. Not only so, but he became disobedient to his 
father and mother, and so estranged from their little and 
only home circle in the earth, that he took the life of his 
only brother, Abel, and filled that home with a terrible 
gloom. (3) Cain was disobedient and estranged from the 
Lord God and from his father's home. Unrepentant and 
burning under the curse imposed upon him, he went out 
from his father's home and "from the presence of the 
Lord" to establish a home and dominion of his own. 
There is no record that he sought the favor or help of the 
Lord God in what he set out to do. He built a city and 
called it after the name of his first born son, Enoch (or 
Channoch). His enterprises proved to be successful from 
a material or worldly standpoint in several ways. One 
of his descendants was "Jabal : he was the father of such 
as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle." Another 
was "Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the 
harp and organ." And a third, who bore part of his own 
name, "Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in 
brass and iron." 

But Lamech, the fifth generation from Cain, and the 
father of the notable men above specified, was the first 
known bigamist and a murderer by his own confession, 
of a seventy and sevenfold degree, as compared with 
Cain's sevenfold degree. 

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54 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

of Cain and his lineage to, and including the sixth gen- 
eration, terminated in ignominy. 

(4) The descendants down to and including the twelfth 
generation had grown to a large and dominant popula- 
tion. They doubtless were in full control of the part of 
the earth inhabited by them and of all the creatures. With 
their growth in numbers and earthly values, they grew 
also in disobedience and estrangement from the Lord 
God and from each other to such an extent that the Lord 
God determined to make an end of them. Their condi- 
tion and the purpose of the Lord God are very forcibly 
and concisely stated as follows: 

5. "And God saw that the wickedness of Man was great 
in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts 
of his heart was only evil continually. 

6. And it repented the Lord that he had made Man on 
the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 

7. And the Lord said, I will destroy Man whom I have 
created from the face of the earth ; both Man, and beast, 
and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air; for it 
repenteth me that I have made them" (Gen. 6: 5-7). 

Accordingly the Lord God sent a great flood upon the 
earth, "And every living substance was destroyed which 
was upon the face of the ground, both Man, and cattle, 
and the creeping things, and the f owl of the heaven ; and 
they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only re- 
mained alive, and they that were with him in the ark" 
(Gen. 7:23). 

(5) In the time of the fifth generation from Noah 
after the great flood, the following is the Bible record: • 

1. "And the whole earth was of one language, and of 
one speech. 



REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 55 

2. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the 
east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and 
they dwelt there. 

3. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make 
brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick 
for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 

4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a 
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make 
us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of 
the whole earth. 

5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the 
tower, which the children of men builded. 

6. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and 
they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and 
now nothing will be restrained from them, which they 
have imagined to do. 

7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their 
language, that they may not understand one another's 
speech. 

9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the 
Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; 
and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon 
the face of all the earth." (Gen. 11 : 1-7, 9). 

The punishment visited upon these descendants of 
Noah for their selfishness, their disregard for the Lord 
God and also for the violation of His holy and righteous 
commandments, included the very things that they 
dreaded the most, namely : 

8. "So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence 
upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build 
the city. 

9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the 
Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: 
and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon 
the face of all the earth" (Gen. 11:8, 9). 

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56 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

from the Bible record and from all subsequent history 
that would overwhelmingly verify the testimony of the 
illustrations above mentioned; but it is unnecessary to 
make use of them here. 

The following general and all-comprehensive state- 
ments, from the beginning, the middle and from the last 
part of the Bible record, relative to Man's fallen state, 
are sufficient proofs, beyond all question, of his most de- 
plorable, unsatisfactory and helpless condition, except 
for God's interposition and salvation, from the time of 
his fall in Eden to the present time. 

12. "And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was 
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the 
earth. 

13. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh has 
come before me; for the earth is filled with violence 
through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the 
earth" (Gen. 6: 12, 13). 

6. "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I 
cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is 

as the flower of the field : 

7. The grass withereth, the flower f adeth ; because the 
spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is 
grass" (Isa. 40:6, 7). 

5. "Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the Man that trust- 
eth in Man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart 
departeth from the Lord. 

6. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and 
shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the 
parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not 
inhabited" (Jer. 17:5,6). 

9. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desper- 
ately wicked: who can know it" (Jer. 17: 9). 

Jesus Christ said to Nicodemus: "That which is born 
of the flesh is flesh" (John 3:6). 



REVELATION OF THE FALL OF MAN 57 

Such a person must be born again of the Spirit, or he 
cannot see or enter into the kingdom of God. This is a 
general statement and includes all mankind. 

7. "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God : for 
it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 

8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God" 
(Rom. 8:7, 8). 

19. "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which 
are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lascivious- 
ness, 

20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, 
wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 

21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and 
such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also 
told you in time past, that they which do such things shall 
not inherit the kingdom of God" (Gal. 5:19-21). 

1. "This know also, that in the last days perilous times 
shall come. 

2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, 
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, un- 
thankful, unholy, 

3. Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false ac- 
cusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are 
good, 

4. Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures 
more than lovers of God ; 

5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power 
thereof : from such turn away. 

6. For this sort are they which creep into houses, and 
lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with 
divers lusts, 

7. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowl- 
edge of the truth. 

8. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so 
do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, 
reprobate concerning the faith" (II Tim. 3 : 1-8). 

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elusive to note, that at the present day, when Christian 
civilization is wide-spread over the whole earth and when 
men exercise almost unlimited dominion over the earth, 
sea and air, and over all their creatures, there is not a 
man on the whole earth enjoying the full measure of the 
supply for his constantly pressing needs, as designed and 
provided for them by the Creator. More than half of the 
human race receive scarcely more for the supply of their 
ever-recurring and imperative needs, than enable them 
to maintain a very moderate livelihood. In fact, there 
are millions of men, women and children now suffering 
in almost every way, because of the very scanty supplies 
for their crying and never satisfied needs. 

Because of their disobedience and estrangement from 
God, men have ever been from the fall of Adam, and are 
now, compelled to secure by themselves the provisions of 
the Creator for their needs. 

Because of the selfishness of all men and their estrange- 
ment from each other, the provisions of the Creator thus 
secured by themselves for themselves are very unequally 
distributed. In this distribution the weak invariably re- 
ceive the least and suffer the most. Thus shall it ever 
be until there will be a complete and accepted reconcilia- 
tion between God and His creature — Man. 



IX 

The Revelation of Salvation by the Lord God for 
Man, Which Is Infinitely Greater than What 
Was Lost in the Fall 

In the Bible, or Hebrew revelation, we learn that the 
Lord God was not unmindful of His creature, Man, in 
his fallen and deplorable condition, but with unmeasured 
love had provided for him long before his fall a complete, 
all-sufficient and absolutely certain salvation from this, 
his lost, sorrowful and suffering condition. The same 
clear, positive, and definite manner which characterized 
the account of Man's creation, as well as the story of his 
downfall in the Bible, also characterizes the account of 
the wonderful plan of salvation for Man from his utterly 
lost and sinful state, of its marvelous development and 
of the unlimited provision for its absolute, complete and 
certain accomplishment. 

By this salvation Man may have all of his needs sup- 
plied in every way, infinitely beyond what they had ever 
been before. 

The account of this salvation for Man by the Lord God, 
as recorded in the Bible or Hebrew revelation, is very 
full, complete and comprehensive in its purpose, plan and 
development. A limited number of references to the 
many facts in the account of this wonderful salvation will 
serve to demonstrate what has been claimed for it, that 
by it Man could have all of his needs supplied in every 

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way infinitely beyond what they have ever been before. 
The Lord God had furnished Adam and his wife with 
overwhelming testimony of His wonderful love and care 
for them, by placing them in the garden of Eden, which 
He had so bountifully prepared for them, and by pro- 
viding without measure for all their needs, spiritual, 
mental, physical and social. 

He had told them that they could freely eat of all the 
trees of the Garden but one, which was undesirable be- 
cause of its evil effects. Lest they might eat of this tree 
to their hurt, He most carefully and explicitly commanded 
them not to eat of it. To prevent them from disobeying 
His- command He affixed a dreadful penalty to its viola- 
tion. 

All this would have doubtless been sufficient to com- 
mand the constant love and gratitude of Adam and his 
wife and also to prevent them from any attempt to eat 
of the forbidden tree, had it not been for that old serpent 
(Satan), that skillful and arch-deceiver, who sought their 
destruction. 

When, therefore, the serpent tempted Eve, the Lord 
God did not interfere, but left her, with the knowledge 
of what He had done for Adam and her in the Garden, 
and with her own sovereign will to make her own choice. 
In like manner, He did not interfere when Eve gave the 
fruit of the forbidden tree to her husband, Adam, to eat, 
that he might also with the free exercise of his sovereign 
will, in full knowledge of all that the Lord God had been 
to him and his wife and what he had done for them, 
choose for himself. 

When, however, both Adam and his wife, by the choice 
of their own sovereign wills, had eaten the fruit of the 



REVELATION OF SALVATION 61 

forbidden tree, notwithstanding the plain and positive 
command of the Lord God that they should not eat of it, 
an immediate and radical change came over their lives. 
Their former condition of innocence, holiness, and glory 
forthwith departed from them, or in other words, they 
suffered the penalty of the violated command — spiritual 
death. "And the eyes of them both were opened, and 
they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig 
leaves together, and made for themselves aprons" (Gen. 

Without delay the Lord God appeared to them, in their 
fallen condition, that He might in righteousness take ac- 
count of their transgressions and mete out sentence ac- 
cording to their guilt; but, with infinite love and mercy, 
provide and declare a complete and sufficient salvation 
from all the results of their disobedience. "And they 
heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in 
the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid them- 
selves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the 
trees of the garden" (Gen. 3:8). 

Then the Lord God, to vindicate His righteousness, to 
afford Adam and his wife their first true lesson in char- 
acter building, to definitely mark the limits of Satan's 
power and to declare the manner and the means of his 
final destruction, began to reckon with the offenders and 
call them to an account for their disobedience and wilful 
violation of His positive and righteous command. In the 
work of true and permanent salvation, justice is as es- 
sential as mercy, and punishment as forgiveness. With- 
out righteousness, true and lasting salvation would be 
impossible. 



X 

Restatement of Man's Fall and the Punishment 

Administered 

It is needful to restate the violations of the righteous 
commandment, and the dreadful sentences pronounced 
upon the violators of the commandment that we may- 
understand more fully the most gracious and all-suffi- 
cient salvation that was provided for Adam, his wife, and 
his posterity by the all-righteous and all-loving God. 

A. The Lord God Reckoned with the Offenders and 
Pronounced upon Them Their Sentences. 

The Lord God began to deal with the offenders in the 
reverse order from that in which the commandment was 
violated by them, but meted out the sentences in the 
direct order of their violation of the commandment. 

9. "And the Lord called unto Adam, and said unto him, 
Where art thou ? 

10. And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and 
I was afraid, because I was naked ; and I hid myself. 

11. And He (the Lord God) said, Who told thee that 
thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof 
I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat ? 

12. And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to 
be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 

13. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is 
this that thou hast done? And the woman said, "The 
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat" (Gen. 3:9-13). 

In this connection it is well to note that neither Adam 
nor his wife hesitated to confess their transgressions, but 

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RESTATEMENT OF MAN'S FALL 63 

both of them laid the blame of their actions upon others. 
After the examination of Adam and his wife by the 
Lord God the following things stand out clear to all who 
read the account of it: 

1. When Adam-and his wife had eaten of the forbidden 
tree, the penalty of the violated law was immediately 
visited upon them, viz., Spiritual Death. They expe- 
rienced a most radical change. Their eyes were opened 
and they knew they were naked. 

2. They made haste to make aprons of fig leaves to hide 
their nakedness from their natural eyes, but their aprons 
failed to hide their nakedness from the eyes of their con- 
sciences, for notwithstanding their aprons, they were 
yet naked before the Lord God and in their own estima- 
tion. 

3. When they heard the voice of the Lord God walking 
in the Garden, the sense of their nakedness was greatly 
intensified, as clearly shown in Adam's response and con- 
fession to the call of the Lord God, "I heard thy voice 
in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; 
and I hid myself" (Gen. 3: 10). 

4. When inquired of by the Lord God about their dis- 
obedience, both Adam and his wife promptly confessed 
their guilt, but laid the blame upon others for their ac- 
tions. 

5. Both of them had utterly failed to consult the Lord 
God or to make a right use of their sovereign wills. They 
were accordingly weighed in the balance and found 
wanting. 

Notwithstanding Adam's God-like endowments, his in- 
timate communion with the Lord God, his indescribable 
condition of joy and glory in the Garden of Eden and the 



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positive command of the Lord God under such circum- 
stances, he most ingloriously fell from his exalted posi- 
tion. He was none other than a self-confessed, guilty 
sinner before the Lord God. His wife was no better. 
She was given to him for a helpmeet. Instead of being 
a helpmeet in the right sense of that term, she was the 
immediate cause of his downfall. 

Adam and his wife were in a most deplorable condi- 
tion, without any merit of their own or apparent hope in 
any other for their deliverance. 

In this fallen and sinful condition Adam became the 
progenitor of the whole human race. In all nature, like 
begets like — each after its own kind. That which was 
begotten of Adam in his fallen condition had flesh and 
blood and mind and soul. All of it, however, was of the 
same kind of his own sinful and utterly fallen condition, 
wholly bereft of his former holy spiritual life. This ut- 
terly sinful and deplorable condition passed from Adam 
to all of his seed or posterity and has from then till now 
characterized all of it. This is more strongly expressed 
by the Apostle Paul: "Wherefore, as by one man sin 
entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death 
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Rom. 
5^12). 

Accordingly, there was absolutely no promise nor even 
the faintest hope of salvation or restoration from this de- 
plorable condition for Adam and his posterity by him or 
by his seed after him ; for in this condition they all were 
reckoned dead. 

In dealing with the serpent the Lord God did not ask it 
any questions, but proceeded at once to mete out to it the 
sentence deserved, doubtless, for its subtlety. 



RESTATEMENT OF MAN'S FALL 65 

14. "And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because 
thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and 
above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou 
go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life" (Gen. 
3 : 14. See Isa. 65 : 25 ; Micah 7 : 17) . 

15. "And I will put enmity between thee and the wo- 
man, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise 
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" (Gen. 3: 15). 

As before mentioned, this curse pronounced upon the 
Serpent in the Garden and its seed, the woman and her 
seed, has been fulfilled to the letter from that day to the 
present. 

B. The Real Tempter Was "That Old Serpent, Called 
the Devil, and Satan/' 

In meting out the curse or sentence upon the serpent in 
the Garden, the Lord God was not ignorant nor unmind- 
ful of "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan," 
(Rev. 12:9) who at that time had made use of the 
serpent in the Garden to ruin Man and the whole earthly 
creation, but in this very act met him face to face and 
thwarted this his first effort to accomplish his diabolical 
purpose. It would not only be absurd but ridiculous to 
suppose for a moment that that first and awful tragedy 
of the human race in the Garden of Eden was all brought 
about by the serpent, however subtle, which was only one 
of the creatures of the Garden that were all in the most 
delightful relationship with Adam and his wife. 

How could the serpent know that the Lord God had 
given a positive command that Adam and his wife should 
not eat the fruit of a certain tree in the Garden with 
the penalty of death affixed? Why should the serpent, 
under such pleasant relationship with the woman, ap- 
proach her under the forbidden tree and subtly tempt her 



66 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

to eat of it when it would bring certain death to her and a 
dreadful curse upon itself? It would be absurd and 
ridiculous to suppose that the serpent of the Garden, of 
itself, contradicted the woman and the command of the 
Lord God by saying "Ye shall not surely die: For God 
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes 
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good 
and evil" (Gen. 3:4, 5). 

Where and how did the serpent get this knowledge, if 
true, which was unknown to Adam and his wife, who had 
dominion over all the creatures of the Garden and of the 
earth, including the serpent ? 

How was it possible that the serpent of the Garden, 
which was altogether inferior to the woman, could speak 
of things, if true, far beyond the knowledge of the 
woman ? 

And, if not true, why should the serpent of the Garden, 
notwithstanding its subtlety, attempt to say and persist 
in saying such false things ? 

Had it been but the work of the serpent, a creature of 
the Garden only, Adam and his wife would not have been 
led to suffer the awful change that made them haste to 
cover their conscious nakedness with aprons of fig leaves 
and to hide themselves amongst the trees of the Garden, 
from the Lord God. Much less would it have occasioned 
the Lord God to seek all of the offenders in the Garden, 
to reckon with them, and to pronounce such grievous 
sentences upon them, including the serpent of the Garden 
itself, that had been subtly, yet ignorantly and it may be 
said innocently, the apparent cause of all the trouble. 

There can be but one supposition that will hold good 
in all of this dreadful tragedy in the Garden of Eden, viz., 



RESTATEMENT OF MAN'S FALL 67 

that, "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan," (Rev. 
12 : 9) made use of the Serpent, because it was the most 
subtle of the beasts of the Garden, to accomplish his in- 
fernal and deadly work under the most deceptive appear- 
ances and statements. 

As Satan artfully concealed himself under the form of 
the serpent in the Garden to deceive and ruin man, so the 
Lord God concealed the all-comprehensive curse or sen- 
tence upon Satan, in metaphoric language, under the form 
of the curse or sentence pronounced upon the serpent in 
the Garden. And as Satan had dealt with the woman 
only, and that through the serpent in the Garden, and had 
thereby led her to disobey the command of the Lord God, 
the curse or sentence pronounced upon Satan was 
coupled with the curse or sentence upon the serpent in 
the Garden, but irrevocably linked up with the woman 
and her seed only. Satan's great, and I may say final, 
punishment and overthrow was to come to him by the 
seed of the woman. 

In this first curse or sentence pronounced upon that 
first and arch-offender against the Lord God, in that first 
and awful tragedy of all tragedies, in the Garden of 
Eden, we have the first and all-comprehensive proclama- 
tion and prophetic declaration of the Lord God to Satan, 
that however much he might trouble and persecute the 
woman and her seed, the seed of the woman would event- 
ually overwhelm him with a complete and everlasting de- 
struction, to wit: "And I (the Lord God) will put enmity 
between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and 
her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise 
his heel" (Gen. 3: 15). 

This sentence of the Lord God refers explicitly to the 



68 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

consummate punishment that was to be inflicted upon 
him by the seed of the woman, whom he had beguiled 
and induced to disobey the positive command of the Lord 
God, which resulted in the inglorious and miserable down- 
fall of both the woman and her husband. 

While this sentence of the Lord God promised sure and 
dire punishment to Satan for what he had done, it doubt- 
less afforded Adam and his wife but little consolation or 
relief at that time, in their wretched condition of naked- 
ness and shame. 

The Lord God then dealt with the woman who had not 
only listened to the Serpent and had eaten of the for- 
bidden tree, but had tempted her husband to do the same. 
Hers was a double offence and deserved a double punish- 
ment. Consequently, a double curse or sentence was 
pronounced upon her by the Lord God, which specified 
(i) the sorrow with which she should bring forth chil- 
dren and (2) the subordinate relation she would sustain 
to her husband, as follows : "Unto the woman he said, I 
will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in 
sorrow thou shalt bring forth children ; and thy desire 
shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee" 
(Gen. 3: 16). 

And last, the Lord God dealt with Adam for giving 
heed to his wife and disobeying His very explicit and 
righteous command and outlined the dreadful punish- 
ment that would follow his disobedience : 

17. "And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast heark- 
ened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, 
of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat 
of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt 
thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; 



RESTATEMENT OF MAN'S FALL 69 

18. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and 
thou shalt eat the herb of the field ; 

19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou 
taken : for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" 
(Gen. 3:17-19). 

The Lord God had finished reckoning with Adam, his 
wife, and the serpent (Satan) and had pronounced sen- 
tences upon all of them without a single intimation to 
Adam and his wife of mercy or that their punishments 
would ever be shortened or lessened. He could not do 
otherwise and be just to Himself and to His intelligent 
creatures, Adam, Eve, and Satan, with their sovereign 
wills. He had to demonstrate once for all time, that 
what He promised, He must without failure perform to 
be in keeping with His own absolute righteousness and 
justice. This was a lesson that He was then administer- 
ing to all the offenders in a way that it might never be 
forgotten by them. 

C. Dreadful Condition Brought upon Adam and His 
Wife and Their Posterity by Their Disobedience. 

Here we see the dreadful condition in which Adam and 
his wife were placed by the terrible sentence pronounced 
upon them by the Lord God for their disobedience. They 
had suffered spiritual death immediately after their dis- 
obedience as the penalty affixed to the command declared. 
This was followed by spiritual and bodily nakedness, that 
neither aprons of fig leaves nor trees of the Garden could 
hide from themselves or from the Lord God. In addi- 
tion to their nakedness, they were now under sentence 
to undergo a dreadful and apparently unending punish- 
ment, intensely aggravated by continual sorrow. 



70 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

It was evident beyond question that Adam had utterly 
failed in the first test of his sovereign will and had 
brought upon himself and upon his seed that should come 
after him this dreadful condition. 

Hitherto, after his fall there was not a single ray of 
hope held out to Adam and his wife that there would be 
any end or the slightest mitigation of the sentences im- 
posed upon them by the Lord God. Moreover, it was 
beyond the faintest hope that either Adam or his seed, 
that should come after him, under such a condition, would 
ever be able to modify, extricate or deliver themselves 
from this awful, sorrowful, and utterly helpless condi- 
tion, to which his deliberate disobedience had brought 
them. Doubtless, both Adam and his wife would have 
been somewhat relieved if they had known that such a 
severe sentence had been passed upon the serpent; but, 
they would likely have placed little value upon, or taken 
little comfort from the statement or rather uninterpreted 
promise that the seed of the woman, (whoever that would 
be) would bruise the serpent's head, since they them- 
selves were in a most wretched and bruised condition. 
What they wanted most at that time was doubtless a 
covering that would hide their dreadful spiritual and 
bodily nakedness from themselves and from the Lord 
God and a sure promise that in some way and at some 
time they or their seed after them could and would be 
restored at least to the innocent and delightful condition 
previously experienced by them in the Garden. 

Neither of these burning wants or needs could be re- 
lieved even by the Lord God Himself, unless Adam, his 
wife, his seed after him, or a substitute, would make 
whole or satisfy His all-righteous but broken command. 



RESTATEMENT OF MAN'S FALL 71 

This was utterly impossible for Adam, his wife or his 
seed after him to do, for the penalty of the violated com- 
mand was death, and death had passed upon Adam, his 
wife, and afterwards upon all of his seed or posterity. 

Hence, their nakedness could be covered and their com- 
plete restoration accomplished only by an all-loving, holy 
and all-righteous substitute. He must be such an all-lov- 
ing substitute as to most willingly assume all the guilt of 
the violated command and suffer the full death penalty 
for Adam, his wife, and all his seed or posterity. He 
must be so holy as to be altogether without sin or guilt in 
himself and so righteous, that in his life and death the 
violated command of the Lord God would be fulfilled in 
every particular and all its demands abundantly satisfied. 

D. The Seed of the Woman the Only and All-Sufficient 
Substitute for Mans Restoration. 

Such a substitute had been provided by the Lord God. 
He was figuratively but specially mentioned as the Seed 
of the Woman that would bruise the serpent's head, in 
that first and all-inclusive sentence pronounced by the 
Lord God upon that first and arch-offender — "that old 
serpent, Satan," as follows: "And the Lord God said 
unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this ... I will 
put enmity between thee and the woman, and between 
thy seed and her seed ; it shall bruise thy head, and thou 
shalt bruise his heel" (Gen. 3: 14, 15). 



XI 

The Seed of the Woman Was None Other than 
Jesus Christ, the All-Sufficient Saviour for 
All Men 

The statement or sentence passed upon Satan was fol- 
lowed by a multitude of statements of the Lord God, as 
recorded in His revelation, that declare with certainty 
who He, the Seed of the Woman, was; what He would 
do for the final overthrow of Satan and his works; and 
what He would do for the complete and glorious salvation 
of Adam and his posterity. 

1. He was (a) Immanuel, God with us. "Therefore 
the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin 
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name 
Immanuel" (Isa. 7:14). (b) He was Jesus, Saviour. 
"And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his 
name JESUS : for he shall save his people from their 
sins" (Matt. 1 :2i). And (c) He was a Saviour, Christ, 
the Lord, "For unto you is born this day in the city of 
David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2 : 11). 

2. He would not only destroy the works of the Devil, 
but the Devil, himself. "He that committeth sin is of the 
devil ; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this 
purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might 
destroy the works of the devil" (I John 3:8). "Foras- 
much then as the children are partakers of flesh and 
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; 

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THE SEED OF THE WOMAN 73 

that through death he might destroy him that had the 
power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2: 14). 

3. What He would do for the complete and glorious 
salvation of Adam and his posterity. 

The following scriptures, from the multitude of them 
in the Bible, refer to the Seed of the Woman and His 
wonderful work of salvation for the world. They are 
clear, definite and positive in what they declare about 
Him as a Saviour, the time He began His saving work, 
His sacrificial character, the manner in which He ac- 
complished His work, the certainty and completeness of 
His saving power and about the amazing results of His 
wonderful salvation. These scriptures also declare, in 
the same manner and without qualifications, His identity 
as God ; His name as Jesus ; His designations as the 
Christ, the Son of the living God, the Son of Man, the 
Lamb of God, etc. In fact, these scriptures show beyond 
a doubt to all persons who study the Bible as the Word 
of God, with the help of the Holy Spirit, that the Seed of 
the Woman is none other than Jesus Christ, the Man of 
Calvary and the Lamb on the throne. 

A. Who the Seed of the Woman Was. 

1. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. 

14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among 
us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only be- 
gotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." 

34. "I (John the Baptist) saw, and bare record that this 
is the Son of God" (John 1 : 1, 14, 34). 

21. "And she (Mary) shall bring forth a son, and thou 
shalt call his name JESUS : for he shall save his people 
from their sins" (Matt. 1:21). 

15. "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 



74 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

16. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the 
Christ, the Son of the living God. . . . 

17. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed 
art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not 
revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven" 
(Matt. 16: 15-17). 

9. "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, 
because that God sent his only begotten Son into the 
world, that we might live through him. 

10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he 
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our 
sins. 

14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father 
sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world" (I John 
4:9, 10, 14). 

16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not 
perish, but have everlasting life. 

17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn 
the world ; but that the world through him might be 
saved" (John 3: 16, 17). 

4. "But when the fulness of the time was come, God 
sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the 
law, 

5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we 
might receive the adoption of sons. 

6. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the 
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father" 
(Gal. 4:4-6). 

"For the Son of man is come to save that which was 
lost" (Matt. 18: n). 

"For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's 
lives, but to save them" (Luke 9: 56). 

29. "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, 
and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away 
the sin of the world ! 

34. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of 
God" (John 1:29, 34). 



THE SEED OF THE WOMAN 75 

8. "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, 
whose names are not written in the book of life of the 
Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev. 

13:8). 

B. What He Would Do with the Devil and His Works. 

8. "He that committeth sin is of the devil, for the devil 
sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of 
God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of 
the devil" (I John 3:8). 

14. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of 
flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the 
same; that through death he might destroy him that had 
the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2 : 14). 

C. What He Would Do for the Complete Salvation of 
Man. 

4. "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our 
sorrows : yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, 
and afflicted. 

5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace 
was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed. 

6. All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned 
every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on him 
the iniquity of us all" (Isa. 53:4-6). 

22. "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his 
mouth : 

24. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on 
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto 
righteousness : by whose stripes ye were healed. 

25. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now re- 
turned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls" 
(I Peter 2 : 22, 24, 25). 

11. "And this is the record, that God hath given to us 
eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 

12. He that hath the Son hath life ; and he that hath not 
the Son of God hath not life. 

13. These things have I written unto you that believe 



y6 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

on the name of the Son of God ; that ye may know that ye 
have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of 
the Son of God" (I John 5 : n-13). 

5. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 
Jesus : 

6. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not 
robbery to be equal with God : 

7. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon 
him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness 
of men : 

8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death 
of the cross. 

9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and 
given him a name which is above every name: 

10. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under 
the earth; 

11. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus 
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 
2:5-11). 

9. "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which 
no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and 
people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before 
the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their 
hands ; 

10. And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to 
our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the 
Lamb. 

11. And all the angels stood round about the throne, 
and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before 
the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 

12. Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, 
and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be 
unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. 

13. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, 
What are these which are arrayed in white robes? 
and whence came they ? 



THE SEED OF THE WOMAN 77 

14. And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he 
said to me, These are they which came out of great tribu- 
lation, and have washed their robes, and made them white 
in the blood of the Lamb. 

15. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and 
serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth 
on the throne shall dwell among them. 

16. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more ; 
neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 

17. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne 
shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains 
of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes" (Rev. 7:9-17). 



XII 

Three Undeniable Statements with Unanswerable 
Proofs That the Seed of the Woman, Jesus 
Christ, Did Not Have A Human Father 

A. First, Joseph of Nazareth Was Not the Father of 
Jesus Christ. 

There is absolutely nothing in all the scriptures, the 
Bible, upon which to base the faintest belief that He was. 
If any man dares to assert or teach that Jesus Christ 
was the Son of Joseph of Nazareth, he tramples under 
foot the Bible account of the birth of Jesus Christ and 
brands as false the testimonies of the most holy, truest 
and most intelligent witnesses, including the mother of 
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ Himself and God, His Father 
in heaven, that ever publicly testified to the truth of any 
one event in history, sacred or profane. 

The following are some of the testimonies of the re- 
markable witnesses and the circumstances under which 
the testimonies were given. 

If Joseph was the father of Jesus Christ, then both 
Joseph and Mary were very different persons from what 
we and the whole Christian world have ever regarded 
them to be. Both of them denied that Joseph was the 
father of the child that was to be born of Mary. Accord- 
ingly, in this denial they both deliberately falsified. They 
also conspired together to deceive the public by stating 
that the child was, or was to be, begotten of the Holy 
Ghost, which they declared was so announced to them by 
the angel Gabriel and the Angel of the Lord, in a most 

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THREE UNDENIABLE STATEMENTS 79 

remarkable manner, as shown in several scripture ac- 
counts, as follows : 

26. "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent 
from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 

27. To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was 
Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was 
Mary. 

28. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou 
that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed 
art thou among women. 

29. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his say- 
ing, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this 
should be. 

30. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for 
thou hast found favour with God. 

31. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 

32. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest ; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne 
of his father David : 

33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for 
ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 

34. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, 
seeing I know not a man? 

35. And the angel answered and said unto her, The 
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the 
Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy 
thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son 
of God" (Luke 1:26-35). 

18. "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: 
When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before 
they came together, she was found with child of the Holy 
Ghost. 

19. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not 
willing to make her a public example, was minded to put 
her away privily. 

20. But when he thought on these things, behold, the 
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, 



80 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee 
Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of 
the Holy Ghost. 

21. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call 
his name JESUS : for he shall save his people from their 
sins. 

22. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled 
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 

23. Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted is, God with us. 

24. Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the 
angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his 
wife: 

25. And knew her not till she had brought forth her 
first-born son: and he called his name JESUS" (Matt. 
1:18-25). 

All of this deception was done by them so that when 
the Child, if a Son, was born he would be regarded as 
the promised and expected Messianic Son of the Virgin. 
"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Be- 
hold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call 
his name Immanuel" (Isa. 7: 14). 

Again, the boy Jesus must have been brought up in the 
home at Nazareth with the understanding that Joseph was 
not his father. This was shown by him at the age of 
twelve years in his answer to his mother's very solicitous 
question when Joseph and she found him in the temple 
with the doctors. While his mother made mention of 
Joseph as his father in her question, Jesus very unhesi- 
tatingly and emphatically indicated in his answer that God 
was his father, as follows : 

48. "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, 
thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. 



THREE UNDENIABLE STATEMENTS 81 

49. And he (Jesus) said unto them, How is it that ye 
sought me ? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's 
business ?" Luke 2 : 48, 49) . 

John the Baptist, the cousin of Jesus and the very 
prince of truth and integrity, said of himself to the priests 
and Levites, that were sent from Jerusalem to find out 
who he was : "I am the voice of one crying in the wilder- 
ness, Make straight the way of the Lord" (John 1:23). 
His preaching was chiefly on repentance from all sin and 
was with terrible exactness, sparing no one. To the 
boastful and self-righteous Pharisees and Sadducees, 
who came to his baptism, he declared: "O generation of 
vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to 
come ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance" 
(Matt. 3:7-8). 

Of this wonderful man Jesus said : "Verily I say unto 
you, Among them that are born of women there hath not 
risen a greater than John the Baptist" (Matt. 11 : 11). 

John the Baptist testified as follows: 

29. "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, 
and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away 
the sin of the world ! 

30. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man 
which is preferred before me ; for he was before me. 

31. And I knew him not: but that he should be made 
manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with 
water. 

32. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit 
descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon 
him. 

33. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to bap- 
tize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou 
shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the 
same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 



82 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

34. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of 
God" (John 1 : 29-34). 

Who can doubt this wonderful testimony of John the 
Baptist? But it is false if Jesus Christ is the son of 
Joseph. For the same reason the uniform and explicit 
testimonies of the three other Gospel writers, Matthew, 
Mark and Luke, which so fully corroborate the testimony 
of John the Baptist that Jesus Christ was the Son of God 
and was so claimed by a voice (the voice of God the 
Father) from heaven as follows, must also be regarded 
false : 

16. "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up 
straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were 
opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending 
like a dove, and lighting upon him : 

17. And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my be- 
loved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3: 16, 17). 

9. "And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came 
from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in 
Jordan. 

10. And straightway coming up out of the water, he 
saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove de- 
scending upon him : 

11. And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou 
art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Mark 
1:9-11). 

21. "Now when all the people were baptized, it came to 
pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the 
heaven was opened. 

22. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape 
like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, 
which said, Thou art my beloved Son ; in thee I am well 
pleased" (Luke 3:21, 22). 

The most remarkable thing about these last three testi- 
monies is that, if Joseph was the father of Jesus, God 



THREE UNDENIABLE STATEMENTS 83 

Himself falsified, when in each of the three testimonies 
He claimed to be the Father of Jesus. If He purposed to 
convey a false statement, He did so after a most deceptive 
manner, in which the Holy Spirit was a party, who was 
sent in the form of a dove as a visible confirmation of 
His statements from heaven. 

Now we come to a direct investigation to determine 
who Jesus Christ was. The findings of this investigation 
must certainly be true and satisfactory, since Jesus Christ, 
Himself, conducted the investigation with His disciples 
who were all intensely interested in what He was and 
who He was. After asking His disciples the pointed 
question about Himself, saying, "Whom do men say that 
I, the Son of man, am?" and receiving various answers 
from them, He said: "But whom say ye that I am?" 
Peter without hesitation answered for all of the disciples, 
"Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matt. 
16:16). 

Jesus Christ not only approved this answer or con- 
fession of Peter, but was delighted with it. This is very 
evident as He turned to Peter and made the following 
significant statements : 

1. "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and 
blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which 
is in heaven." 

2. "And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon 
this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell 
shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16: 17, 18). 

This confession of Peter, "Thou art the Christ, the Son 
of the living God," which was implicitly believed by all 
of the disciples and was heartily and without reserve ap- 
proved by Jesus Himself, who declared that it had been 



84 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

revealed to Peter from His Father in heaven, must there- 
fore most certainly be true, since it was boldly expressed 
by Peter before all the disciples and in their behalf. It 
was most heartily approved by Jesus Christ, Himself, and 
most emphatically declared by Him to be a Revelation to 
Peter from God, His Father in heaven. There can be no 
room for doubt after such witnessing. However, if 
Joseph was the father of Jesus Christ, this combined 
testimony of the truest and most unimpeachable witnesses 
that ever testified in any single case in the world must 
be set aside as false. Not only so, but if Joseph was the 
father of Jesus Christ, then the confession of Peter that 
Jesus Christ was "The Christ, the Son of the living God" 
was not true. Consequently, when Jesus Christ built His 
Church upon Peter's confession as a Rock against which 
the gates of hell should never prevail, He was mistaken, 
for it was not a Rock, but a flesh and blood foundation, 
which could never withstand the assaults of the gates of 
hell. 

If Joseph was the father of Jesus Christ, then the two 
following and most positive statements, i, of Jesus Christ 
and His disciples, John 16:27-30, and, 2, of the Apostle 
John, I John 1 : 1-3, indicate very clearly that they were 
under the spell of a false delusion or they were con- 
spiring together to deceive the world in a most impressive 
and brazenly false manner, to wit : 

27. "For the Father himself loveth you, because ye 
have loved me, and have believed that I came out from 
God. 

28. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the 
world : again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. 

29. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou 
plainly, and speakest no proverb, 



THREE UNDENIABLE STATEMENTS 85 

30. Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and 
needest not that any Man should ask thee: by this we 
believe that thou earnest forth from God" (John 16: 
27-30). 

1. "That which was from the beginning, which we have 
heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have 
looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of 
life; 

2. (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, 
and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, 
which was with the Father, and was manifested unto 
us;) 

3. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto 
you, that ye also may have fellowship with us : and truly 
our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus 
Christ" (I John 1-3). 

The seventeenth chapter of John's Gospel cannot be 
interpreted in any other way than the prayer of Jesus 
Christ to God, His own Father in heaven. The first, 
fifth and twenty-fourth verses cannot be misunderstood 
except by one who would seek to divert their plain and 
real meaning. In the first verse, Jesus lifted up His eyes 
to heaven, the abode of His Father, and addressed Him 
in a familiar manner such as none but a real son could do, 
as follows : "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his 
eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come ; glorify 
thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee" (John 
17:1). In the fifth and twenty-fourth verses, Jesus 
Christ speaks of the Glory and Love He had with His 
Father, God before the world was, to wit : "And now, O 
Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the 
glory which I had with thee before the world was" (John 
17:5). "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast 
given me, be with me where I am ; that they may behold 



86 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst 
me before the foundation of the world" (John 17:24). 
The tenor of the whole prayer is in keeping with the in- 
timate relationship of a Son with his real Father. 

If, however, Joseph was the father of Jesus Christ, 
then this, the Lord's prayer, is a myth and could never 
have been made by Jesus Christ. 

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus Christ was loaded 
down with the sin of the world. He prayed, "Father, if 
thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, 
not my will, but thine, be done. . . . And being in an 
agony he prayed more earnestly : and his sweat was as it 
were great drops of blood falling down to the ground" 
(Luke 22: 42, 44). Had He been the son of Joseph, He 
could not have borne the sin of the whole world, but 
would have been overwhelmed with His own sins. He 
would have cried out with David, "Have mercy upon me, 
O God, according to thy lovingkindness : according unto 
the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my trans- 
gressions. . . . Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and 
in sin did my mother conceive me" (Psalms 51 : 1, 5). 

Perhaps there was no time in the history of Jesus Christ 
when different parties, including His enemies, wanted 
more to know of a truth who He was, than when He was 
on trial for His life. Moreover, there was no time in His 
life, humanly speaking, when He would lose more by 
claiming to be the Son of God and gain more by claim- 
ing to be the son of Joseph, than when He was be- 
fore Caiaphas the High Priest. 

62. "And the high priest arose, and said unto him, An- 
swerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness 
against thee? 



THREE UNDENIABLE STATEMENTS 87 

63. But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest an- 
swered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, 
that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of 
God. 

64. Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said : nevertheless 
I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man 
sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the 
clouds of heaven. 

65. Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He 
hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of 
witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy" 
(Matt. 26:62-65). 

In this mock trial before Caiaphas, Jesus Christ kept 
silence. When the false witnesses testified against Him, 
He did not respond to their false accusations, even when 
the high priest pressed Him to do so. But when the high 
priest adjured Him by the living God to tell whether He 
was "The Christ, the Son of God," Jesus did not hesitate 
a moment, but replied, "Thou hast said," which meant 
without qualification, "I am the Christ, the Son of God." 
Immediately following this confession, Jesus made a most 
remarkable statement about Himself with an assurance 
that the Son of God only could make, and that could not 
be misunderstood as to its reference to Himself, as fol- 
lows: "Nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye 
see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, 
and coming in the clouds of heaven" (Matt. 26:64). 
The answer of the high priest to this statement shows, 
beyond a doubt, that Jesus Christ meant exactly what He 
said, "I am the Christ, the Son of God," as follows : "Then 
the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken 
blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? be- 
hold, now ye have heard his blasphemy" (Matt. 26:65). 



88 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Matthew's account of this mock trial of Jesus Christ 
before Caiaphas, the high priest, is confirmed by both 
Mark and Luke. No honest student of the Bible, God's 
Word, could or would dare before his own conscience to 
dispute or set aside this testimony of Jesus Christ before 
Caiaphas about Himself, under the circumstances that 
"He was the Christ, the Son of God!' To all honest be- 
lievers in the Bible as God's Word, this testimony of 
Jesus Christ means exactly what it says and is absolutely 
indisputable. 

B. // Joseph of Nazareth Was Not the Father of Jesus 
Christ, Then No Other Man Was His Father. In such 
a case, His father would have been an adulterer and His 
mother an adulteress. Accordingly, if Jesus Christ would 
have inherited a sinful nature from that devout man, 
Joseph of Nazareth, as His father, how much more pro- 
nounced would have been the sinful nature that He would 
have inherited from such parents. Such a supposition, 
however, would be repulsive to all mankind that know 
anything of Jesus Christ as a Saviour. It would not be 
tolerated by nominal Christians, much less by His devout 
followers. 

C. Neither Joseph of Nazareth Nor any Other Man 
Could Be the Father of Jesus Christ, Because Like Al- 
ways Begets Like. As is the seed, so is the plant, the tree, 
and each after its own kind. This is an unalterable law 
of the universe. 

All men, according to the Scriptures, are under sin 
(Gal. 3: 22) ; dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1, 5) ; 
and guilty before God (Rom. 3 : 19). All history and our 
own experiences can and must corroborate this scripture 
testimony. 



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No man with such a nature and character could have 
been the father of the Seed of the Woman, Jesus Christ, 
since by scripture testimony there was no sin in Jesus 
Christ (I John 3:5) and He knew no sin (II Cor. 
5:21). On the contrary, as the Scriptures declare: "He 
was God" (John 1 : 1) ; He was "equal with God" (Phil. 
2:6) ; He was "the Holy One and the Just" (Acts 3 : 14) ; 
and "the only begotten Son of God" (John 3: 16). Jesus 
Christ claimed that He had power to lay down His life 
and take it again, and claimed that He had this as a com- 
mandment from His Father (John 10: 17, 18). Then 
afterwards He did what He claimed to have power to do. 
This no man could have done. Hence, in this He was 
wholly unlike man. In fact, as recorded in Colossians, 
the Seed of the Woman, Jesus Christ, 

15. "Is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of 
every creature : 

16. For by him were all things created, that are in 
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, 
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, 
or powers : all things were created by him, and for him : 

17. And he is before all things, and by him all things 
consist : 

18. And he is the head of the body, the church: who 
is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all 
things he might have the pre-eminence. 

19. For it pleased the Father that in him should all 
fulness dwell; 

20. And, having made peace through the blood of his 
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself ; by him, 
I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in 
heaven" (Col. 1:15-20). 

The almost universal belief of all men that know any- 
thing of Jesus Christ and their attitude to Him, indicates 



90 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

beyond a doubt that they regard Him not only wholly un- 
like man, but wholly superior to man, and therefore He 
could not have had a human father. 

1. To begin with: millions of men in all ages of the 
Christian era, and more at the present than at any pre- 
vious time, have celebrated the supper of the Lord, which 
He, Himself, instituted; (a) because He commanded 
them to do so; (b) because they believed that their sins 
had been forgiven and their lives had been changed, by 
their faith in His all-atoning sacrifice, which the supper 
of the Lord represented; (c) because they delighted in 
this manner to testify to the world their belief that He 
was what He said He was, "The Christ, the Son of the 
living God," and that He had given His life for the re- 
demption of all mankind from sin, and was now with His 
Father in heaven with all power. 

2. While the birthdays of the greatest and best men 
are kept by their followers or admirers in their own coun- 
tries, continents or indeed in the whole world for a few 
centuries, the significance and interest in these birthdays 
are lost in the flight of time and they cease to be kept. 
The birthdays of other notable men take their places only 
to give place to others that will in like manner follow 
them. 

The birthday of Jesus Christ, however, has been kept 
for more than nineteen centuries. Its celebration in- 
creases every century not only in intensity and in number 
and variety of people that participate in it, but also in the 
significance of whom Jesus Christ was and what He did 
for all mankind. In all the nations of the earth and in 
all the languages and dialects of the world, the story of 
the birth of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the gospels of 



THREE UNDENIABLE STATEMENTS 91 

Matthew and Luke, is told on His birthdays. It is re- 
peated to the children in the homes and Sunday Schools, 
recounted in the meetings for thanksgiving and prayer, 
represented on canvas and in stone by the greatest paint- 
ers and sculptors, and proclaimed with power from the 
pulpit, the rostrum and in the press. 

Moreover, the telling of the story is accompanied by 
the songs of children, the hymns of the great congrega- 
tions, the chantings of well-drilled choirs and the swelling 
anthems of the mightiest choruses in imitation of the 
multitude of the heavenly host praising God on the real 
birthday of Jesus Christ, saying, "Glory to God in the 
highest, on earth peace, good will toward men." 

Furthermore, as Jesus Christ was the gift of God to the 
world, His birthday in all the world is the very inspira- 
tion of the giving of gifts by all classes of people. As the 
day is better understood, the gifts are more and more to 
the poor, the needy, the distressed, and to the prisoners, 
including the worst criminals. 

Most beautifully, significantly and well nigh univer- 
sally, the gift of Jesus Christ to the world is represented 
by the Christmas tree. Its ever green leaves represent 
Him as the Life everlasting, its bright light represents 
Him as the Light of the world and its abundance of pre- 
cious gifts for needy ones about it represent Him as the 
only one who could say: "All things are delivered unto 
me of my Father ; and no man knoweth the Son, but the 
Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the 
Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. 

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11 : 27, 28). 

3. That Jesus Christ was regarded by the best men of 



92 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

the best nations of the earth as in a class by Himself on 
the earth, superior to all men, therefore unlike all men, is 
shown by the following remarkable facts: 

a. All the advanced nations of the earth have for cen- 
turies been classed together with their full consent under 
the term of Christendom, because in their government 
and maintenance they adhered more closely than other 
nations to the teaching and spirit of Jesus Christ. 

b. All history, written or taught within the bounds of 
Christendom is separated into two great divisions, to wit, 
B. C. — before Christ, and A. D. — Anno Domini — in the 
year of the Lord. 

c. And yet more noteworthy, all the business and social 
transactions of Christendom, and indeed all the transac- 
tions general of the whole world are dated daily, monthly 
and yearly from the birthday of Jesus Christ. 

4. It is a most significant fact that all men, good and 
bad, of all nations and languages, that know anything 
of the true character and mission of Jesus Christ, regard 
Him as the only person that ever lived on the earth who 
was absolutely free from error of any kind, and conse- 
quently unlike all other men. 

I met a very intelligent gypsy about forty years ago at 
his camp near St. Louis, Missouri. In a lively and most 
interesting conversation about men and things, he made 
this bold and very significant statement : "There is no man 
in the world that cannot be bought with five dollars." I 
replied, "The price is too small." He repeated the state- 
ment with greater emphasis. I replied accordingly, "The 
price is too small." He then said, "I have been all over 
the world, and have seen all kinds of men from every 
standpoint, and I know what I have said is true. I don't 



THREE UNDENIABLE STATEMENTS 93 

mean to say that any good man would deliberately sell 
himself for five dollars, but under favorable circum- 
stances he would yield to a price as small as five dollars 
when presented at the point of his least moral resistance." 

Then I said to him, "I would like to ask you a direct 
question, and receive from you a direct answer." He 
said, "I will if I can." I then asked him, "What do you 
think of Jesus Christ?" He replied promptly, "I believe 
that He was the only perfect man that was ever on the 
earth. He was what He professed to be — the Son of 
God." 

And yet more significant, multitudes of men, of all dis- 
tinctions, high and low, rich and poor, learned and un- 
learned, who are given to habitual swearing and cursing, 
bear most emphatic and unequivocal testimony to the all- 
truthful, almighty and all-merciful character of Jesus 
Christ, placing these qualities of Him upon a level with 
those of God Himself. 

In their swearing they call upon Jesus Christ with 
great emphasis: 1. As an infallible witness: By Jesus or 
By Christ it is so, on a level with By God it is so. 2. As 
an invincible ally : By Jesus or By Christ I can do so or 
will do so, on a level with By God I can or will do so. 3. 
Denoting His infinite power: Christ- Almighty as God- 
Almighty. 4. Denoting very great surprise or wonder: 
Jesus Christ! as Lord God! In their cursing, however, 
they ever regard the all-merciful character of Jesus 
Christ, apart from His other divine qualities mentioned 
in their swearing, by never calling upon Him to curse any 
person or thing, but call upon God Himself to do so, as 
God damn you, him, or it; scarcely, if ever, Christ or 
Jesus damn you. 



XIII 

Man's Complete Salvation by Jesus Christ, as His 
All-Sufficient Substitute Provided for Him 
Long Before His Fall 

The Lord God did not wait until the sixtieth century 
of the world's history, nor the twentieth century of the 
Christian Era, to find out how He might provide a way 
of salvation for man out of his deplorable condition. 

A. This Salvation for Man Provided Before His Crea- 
tion. The plan for man's salvation was determined upon 
by the Lord God before his creation. It was part of 
a greater plan of the Lord God, which included, among 
other things, Man's creation and redemption from his fall. 

This early provision for Man's salvation is clearly 
stated in the Bible, God's Word. 

"The book of life of the Lamb slain from the founda- 
tion of the world" (Rev. 13: 8). 

"Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom 
prepared for you from the foundation of the world" 
(Matt. 25:34). 

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the 
foundation of the world" (Eph. 1:4). 

"Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed 
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain 
conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; 

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb 
without blemish and without spot: 

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of 
the world, but was manifest in these last times for you" 
(I Peter 1:18-20). 

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MAN'S COMPLETE SALVATION PROVIDED 95 

In the mind and plan of the Lord God for the salvation 
of Man, His Son Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, was 
slain from the foundation of the world and was spoken 
of by the prophets in the past tense as in Isaiah: 

"He was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace 
was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed ; 

All we like sheep have gone astray: we have turned 
every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on him 
the iniquity of us all" (Isa. 53 : 5, 6). 

It was not until the fortieth century of the world's 
history, however, that "he appeared to put away sin by 
the sacrifice of himself" (Heb. 9:26). 

There was no mistaking His appearance when it took 
place. It was prophesied in the Hebrew scriptures. 
His birth was foretold to His mother and afterwards to 
her husband, Joseph as follows : "And she shall bring 
forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS : for he 
shall save his people from their sins" (Matt. 1 : 21). His 
birth was announced to the shepherds keeping their flocks 
by night, when "the glory of the Lord shone round about 
them; and they were sore afraid. And the angel of the 
Lord said unto them, Fear not : for, behold, I bring you 
good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a 
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:9-11). He 
was personally pointed out by John the Baptist, His fore- 
runner, as "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin 
of the world" (John 1:29). It was clearly stated who 
He was and what His work was : — "For God sent not His 
Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the 
world through him might be saved" (John 3 : 17). 



96 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

B. This Salvation for Man Included All His Sin. The 
plan of the Lord God for the salvation of Man was per- 
fect and included not only his first sin and his special sins, 
but all of his sin. Man's first sin spoken of in Genesis, 
third chapter, which in itself seemed so inoffensive, was a 
direct violation of the command of the Lord God, with a 
death penalty attached to it, which was immediately and 
without apparent mercy visited upon him for his wilful 
disobedience. All sin against the Lord God has the death 
penalty attached to it, which has ever been and ever will 
be executed with absolute certainty, unless averted by the 
salvation of the Lord God. 

Several Bible references will serve as proofs that all 
sin against the Lord God has with it the death penalty. 

"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 
thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest 
thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen. 2: 17). 

"The soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezek. 18:4, 20). 

"The wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6: 23). 

Doubtless the reason for the relentless severity against 
sin is that the evil results of sin in the soul of a man are 
infinitely worse to his soul than the worst poisons in his 
body would be to his body, and must be destroyed root 
and branch if the man is to be saved. The penalty of any 
and all sin against the Lord God requires the death of the 
sinner or the death of another as a substitute for him. 
No sinner, however, can be a substitute for another 
sinner. Nothing short of the life blood of an all-right- 
eous Man as a substitute can ever make an atonement for 
a sinner against the Lord God. "For the life of the flesh 
is in the blood : and I have given it to you upon the altar 



MAN'S COMPLETE SALVATION PROVIDED 97 

to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood 
that maketh an atonement for the soul" (Lev. 17: 11). 

Accordingly, a substitute for sinful Man was provided 
by the Lord God from the foundation of the world who 
was and is all-righteous and all-sufficient to meet all the 
conditions of Man's complete salvation from all sin. "For 
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made 
alive" (I Cor. 15:22). 

"For there is one God, and one mediator between God 
and men, the Man Christ Jesus ; 

Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in 
due time" (I Tim. 2:5, 6). 

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no 
sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in 
him" (II Cor. 5:21). 

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the 
tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto right- 
eousness: by whose stripes ye were healed" (I Peter 
2:24). 

While the blood of birds and animals was offered in 
sacrifice to the Lord God for sin and accepted by Him in 
all ages of the world before the Christian Era, the efficacy 
of all such offerings consisted in the fact that they were 
offered in the name of the promised Messiah, the Lamb 
of God slain from the foundation of the world — Jesus 
Christ, and as types of His sacrifice and death on Calvary 
for the sin of the whole world. 

C. This Salvation for Man is All-Glorious Beyond Hu- 
man Comprehension. The marvelous salvation promised 
by the Lord God and wrought out by His Son Jesus 
Christ for Man is all-glorious and beyond all human com- 
prehension. It extends beyond the uttermost powers of 



98 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

darkness from which Man is saved, and to the uttermost 
bounds of the kingdom of God, to which he is saved. 
This glorious and all-inclusive salvation with its infinite 
completeness provided for Man by the Lord God is 
summed up by the Holy Spirit and voiced by the great 
Apostle Paul as follows: 

9. "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, 
do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might 
be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and 
spiritual understanding ; 

10. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all 
pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increas- 
ing in the knowledge of God ; 

11. Strengthened with all might, according to his glori- 
ous power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy- 
fulness ; 

12. Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made 
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in 
light: 

13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, 
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son : 

14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, 
even the forgiveness of sins : 

15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn 
of every creature : 

16. For by him were all things created, that are in 
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, 
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, 
or powers : all things were created by him, and for him : 

17. And he is before all things, and by him all things 
consist: 

18. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is 
the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all 
things he might have the pre-eminence. 

19. For it pleased the Father that in him should all 
fullness dwell; 

20. And, having made peace through the blood of his 



MAN'S COMPLETE SALVATION PROVIDED 99 

cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself ; by him, 
I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 

21. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies 
in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he recon- 
ciled. 

22. In the body of his flesh through death, to present 
you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight" 
(Col. 1 :9-22). 



XIV 

The Application of Salvation through Jesus Christ 
In the First Ages of the World from the First 
Sinners in the Garden of Eden Down to Abra- 
ham 

With this wonderful and all-sufficient salvation for 
Man, the Lord God began the application of it to the case 
of the first offenders, Adam and his wife, while they were 
yet in the Garden of Eden. Very little could be done for 
them, however, as they were yet in possession of their 
sovereign wills and were not any more disposed, if as 
much, to follow the instructions of the Lord God than 
before the fall, and Satan, encouraged by his success, just 
as ready, and perhaps more so, to lead Man away from 
loyalty and obedience to the Lord God. 

A. Application of This Salvation to Adam and His 
Wife in the Garden of Eden and out of it. It is written, 
"Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make 
coats of skins, and clothed them" (Gen. 3:21). Adam 
and his wife had made aprons of fig leaves and secreted 
themselves among the trees of the Garden to conceal their 
nakedness and quiet their shame; but with utter failure. 
Doubtless, both Adam and his wife pleaded with the Lord 
God that He would clothe them that the shame of their 
naked bodies and their guilty consciences would cease to 
trouble them, when in answer to their prayers the Lord 
God clothed them as before stated. 

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It will be remembered that all sin against the Lord God, 
including this first sin, could be atoned for only by the 
blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was 
slain from the foundation of the world. In accordance 
with this fact, the Lord God chose to clothe them with 
coats made of skins. To obtain the skins the Lord God 
shed the blood of animals, thus typifying the blood shed 
on Calvary, the only all-sufficient atonement for all sin. 
This was the first shedding of blood for sin, typifying the 
blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for the sin of the 
whole world, and it was done by the Lord Himself. The 
Lord God did not give to them the skins to make clothes 
for themselves, but made coats for them Himself and 
clothed them as with garments of salvation and robes of 
righteousness, (Isa. 61 : 10) so that neither Satan nor 
angels could dispute the forgiveness of their sin. 

With all their sorrow occasioned by their disobedience 
and fall, this must have been a happy experience for them 
that they were yet under the personal care and protection 
of the Lord God. It must have given them a larger con- 
ception of the Lord God, that He was not only absolutely 
just in demanding punishment for the vindication of His 
violated command, but He was also absolutely just in 
providing His righteousness, by His undeserved mercy, 
for the penitent sinners. 

This has characterized the dealings of the Lord God 
with Man from that day to the present. While, however, 
Adam and his wife were pardoned for their disobedience 
and the shame of their nakedness was taken away by the 
direct interposition and righteous atonement of the Lord 
God Himself, they, of themselves, were far from what 
they ought to have been. 



102 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Again the Lord God, after consultation in heaven, 
demonstrated His all-loving care for Adam and his wife, 
lest in the exercise of their sovereign wills they would 
commit another act of disobedience that would place them 
forever beyond redemption, as follows : 

22. "And the Lord God said, Behold, the Man is become 
as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put 
forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, 
and live for ever : 

23. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the 
garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was 
taken. 

24. So he drove out the man : and he placed at the east 
of the garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword 
which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of 
life" (Gen. 3:22-24). 

From first thought it would seem that the Lord God, 
by driving Adam and his wife out of the Garden of Eden 
to till the ground, that was cursed for their sin, by hard 
labor, had made it much more difficult for them to obey 
His commands. They evidently did better for the re- 
mainder of their lives, since there is no record whatever 
against them in the future. On the contrary, there are 
special mentions in the record of their lives, which, to- 
gether with the Godlike lives of several of their children 
and also of their grandchildren, clearly indicate that they 
had profited greatly by their past experience and had lived 
much closer to the Lord God during the remainder of 
their lives. 

B. Application of This Salvation to the Children and 
Grandchildren of Adam and His Wife, While They Yet 
Lived, 



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When their first son Cain was born, Eve manifested her 
attitude and gratitude to the Lord in her joyous expres- 
sion, "I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Gen. 4:1). 
Why Eve did not make a similar statement when Abel 
was born might be accounted for by her placing too much 
stress upon Cain as a Man from the Lord and not afford- 
ing the proper training to make him a Man of the Lord. 

1. To their son Abel. In the case of Abel she deter- 
mined to put forth every effort to make him a Man of the 
Lord. In this she evidently succeeded. After the death 
of Abel a third son was born to Adam and his wife. It 
was at this time that she expressed with delight the real 
joy and gratitude of her heart to the Lord God and doubt- 
less voiced the same for Adam as follows : "For God hath 
appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain 
slew" (Gen. 4:25). They called his name Seth, which 
meant appointed. 

It may be taken for granted that the training and ex- 
ample afforded Abel, which tended to make him the God- 
like man he became, were much increased in the training 
and example for their third son, Seth, with a much riper 
experience in training children and with a greater de- 
pendence upon the Lord God in affording him an ex- 
ample. The Godlike results that have and will follow to 
the end of time, the lives and teachings of Adam and his 
wife, through Abel and Seth and also through their grand 
and great-grandchildren, no man can tell. It is beyond 
human computation. 

When the grand summary is made up it will be found 
that the lives and characters of Adam and his wife 
amidst the thorns and thistles while they were tilling the 
ground will loom up far beyond what they were in the 



104 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES . 

Garden of Eden. In this connection it can be truthfully 
said: That some of the most wonderful if not the best 
service ever rendered to God by men, has been when 
they enjoyed the least of this world's good things. In- 
deed, I might add when they were not only deprived of 
this world's good things, but exposed to great trials and 
suffering. As illustrations I might mention Abel, Enoch, 
Abraham, Joseph in prison, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, 
David, Elijah, the three Hebrew children before the fiery 
furnace, Daniel sentenced to the den of lions, John the 
Baptist, and above and before all Jesus Christ. The 
eleventh chapter of Hebrews is devoted to an array of 
such notables that rendered unmeasured service to the 
Lord God. 

On the other hand it may, with equal truth, be said that 
the poorest and most worthless service that has ever been 
rendered to God by men was when they enjoyed the most 
of this world's goods and seemed to be almost entirely 
free from trials and suffering. As illustrations, I might 
mention Adam and his wife in the Garden of Eden, Cain, 
the firstborn of Man, the descendants of Adam just before 
the flood, the descendants of Noah, when they determined 
to build a city and tower, Esau, the first son of Isaac, 
"who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright," (Heb. 
12: 16) the older sons of Jacob, who for jealousy sold 
their younger brother Joseph, practically all the kings of 
Israel and Judah, when they became powerful and pros- 
perous, including Saul, David and Solomon, and the 
Church of the Laodiceans. Note the witness of the Lord 
against them. 

15. "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor 
hot : I would that thou wert cold or hot. 



THE FIRST AGES OF THE WORLD 105 

16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither 
cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. 

17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with 
goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that 
thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, 
and naked : 

18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, 
that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou 
may est be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness 
do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, 
that thou mayest see" (Rev. 3: 15-18). 

Jesus Christ Himself speaks with no uncertain em- 
phasis upon the deceitfulness of riches and pleasures and 
the dreadful handicap of a rich man as follows : 

14. "And that which fell among thorns are they, which, 
when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with 
cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no 
fruit to perfection" (Luke 8: 14). 

23. "And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his 
disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter 
into the kingdom of God ! 

24. And the disciples were astonished at his words. 
But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, 
how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into 
the kingdom of God ! 

25. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a 
needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of 
God" (Mark 10:23-25). 

But to return to the record of the development of the 
salvation of the Lord God for Man. While Satan entered 
that family circle and led astray the first-born son, Cain, 
the Lord God blessed the efforts of Adam and his wife in 
rearing their second son, Abel. This was evidenced by 
Abel's offering to the Lord God, as he was doubtless 



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taught by his parents, and its acceptance as follows : "And 
Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of 
the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel 
and to his offering" (Gen. 4:4). This offering of Abel 
was in accord with the direction of the Lord God, as 
afterwards set forth in the Word of God: "But of the 
firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the first- 
ling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou 
shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn 
their fat for an offering made by fire,for a sweet savour 
unto the Lord" (Num. 18: 17). 

As Abel was the first martyr in the work of the Lord 
God for the salvation of Man, he is first mentioned in that 
unparalleled roll of the faithful servants who devoted 
their lives and their all in preparing the way for the com- 
ing of the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the living God 
that the world might be saved through Him. "By faith 
Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than 
Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, 
God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet 
speaketh" (Heb. 11:4). Abel has given the longest testi- 
mony of any of God's righteous saints. If "the blood of 
the martyrs is the seed of the Church," what will such 
seed amount to in the kingdom of God at such early plant- 
ing? 

2. To their son Seth. The very early records of the 
work of the Lord God for the salvation of Man are very 
meager but very significant. When Adam was one hun- 
dred and thirty years of age, another son was born to him 
of his wife, which afforded great joy in that home as 
expressed by his wife: "And Adam knew his wife again; 
and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, 



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said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, 
whom Cain slew" (Gen. 4: 25). It requires no stretching 
of the imagination to say that great care was exercised 
by both Adam and his wife in the training of this son, 
who was regarded by them as one appointed them a seed 
instead of Abel, in order that he might grow up to be in 
every way like Abel. This supposition is fully confirmed 
by the closer relation of men to God, as recorded in the 
next verse of this same chapter : "And to Seth, to him 
also there was born a son ; and he called his name Enos : 
then began men to call upon the name of the Lord" (Gen. 
4:26). This was one hundred and five years after the 
birth of Seth that this grandson of Adam was born. It 
was a long time to wait, but evidently good work had been 
done in the home of Adam and in the home also of his son 
Seth, since the special message of that important record 
was that "then began men to call upon the name of the 
Lord." Without doubt, the family altar had been con- 
stantly maintained in the old homestead of Adam and his 
wife and afterwards also in the home of Seth, which led 
to the more general calling upon the Lord as stated in the 
record. This was a marked advance in the work of the 
Lord God for the salvation of men since it could then 
have been said as afterwards : "And it shall come to pass, 
that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall 
be saved" (Acts 2:21). 

3. To their great-grandson, Enoch. Much time — about 
eight hundred years — elapsed before the next recorded 
work of the Lord for Man's salvation. It was a most 
remarkable one, however, as follows : 

21. "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat 
Methuselah : 



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22. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methu- 
selah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters : 

23. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty 
and five years : 

24. And Enoch walked with God : and he was not ; for 
God took him" (Gen. 5 : 21-24). 

There must have been much Godlike work and living in 
the home of Adam and his wife, in the home of their son 
Seth, of their grandson Enos, and of their great-grand- 
sons down to Enoch, to make it possible to produce and 
maintain such a character as Enoch who walked with God 
practically all of his life. Notwithstanding the curse on 
the ground, the thorns and the thistles, the walk of Enoch 
was so constant, so close and so pleasing to God that 
Enoch was no longer compelled to endure the trials of the 
earth, for God took him to Himself. With the production 
of such a perfect human life under God at that early day, 
there is no need of a written revelation to understand 
much that had been going on in those homes for hundreds 
of years. Adam and his wife understood the Lord God 
better and lived nearer to Him, out of the Garden of Eden, 
than in it. They were more obedient to His commands. 
Their home in the midst of toil and trials was a happy 
one, as it was devoted to the service of the Lord God. 

I can understand how the little boy, Seth, who had been 
sent to that home instead of Abel, listened with breathless 
attention to the stories of his mother and father about 
the Lord God, the Garden of Eden, the delightful life in 
the Garden, the many beautiful trees of the Garden whose 
delicious fruit they were permitted to eat, the tree of 
life in the midst of the Garden, then the tree of the 
knowledge of good and evil, whose fruit they were for- 



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bidden to eat, the command of the Lord God, the subtle 
serpent, the temptation, the fall, the nakedness and shame, 
the aprons of fig leaves, the hiding among the trees of 
the Garden, the call of the Lord God, the examination of 
the guilty ones, and the imposing of the sentences. Then 
how the Lord God clothed them, how their shame was 
taken away, and what their clothing signified, particularly 
the shedding of the blood of the animals, how they were 
sent out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground, cursed 
for their disobedience. And further, how he listened to 
the story of Cain and Abel, of their offerings, how Abel's 
offering was received by the Lord God and Cain's offering 
was rejected and why. How Cain hated Abel, then slew 
him and what became of Cain. And how he wanted to 
know everything about Abel as he was made to believe 
that he was sent to that home instead of Abel. Under 
God, Seth's character was thus built up after the pattern 
of Abel's. 

I can also understand with what heavenly interest the 
Lord God regarded and yearned over the telling of these 
stories of Adam and his wife to their little boy Seth whom 
He had sent them instead of Abel and how in answer to 
the prayers of these first parents He richly blessed these 
communications not only in developing the best life in 
their little boy, but in guarding him from the temptations 
of Satan, which he was sure to meet. 

What was true of the boy Seth was true also of his 
boy, Enos ; and of his boy, Cainan ; and of his boy, Mahal- 
aleel; and of his boy, Jared; and of his boy, Enoch. All 
of them as boys visited the old homestead frequently 
and heard the same stories direct from their grand 
and great-grandparents — Adam and Eve, that were 



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told to the little boy Seth, which were accompanied 
also with the same blessing from the Lord God. I can 
almost imagine that Eve took all these little boys to 
a sacred place in the homestead and showed them the 
coats that the Lord God had made for them. These 
stories were repeated over and over again by the parents 
of these boys in their own homes and also by the boys 
themselves to other boys. You can rest assured that the 
girls were told these stories by Eve and by their mothers 
and repeated by them to other girls the same as the boys. 
Accordingly, the impressions formed by these stories be- 
came a part of their own lives as well as that of their 
families and proved not only a very great help in their 
devotion and service to the Lord God, but a strong de- 
fense against the wiles of Satan. 

The Lord God must have had peculiar delight because 
of the satisfactory progress of His work of salvation for 
Man. The one chief personal product, of all that had 
hitherto been done from Adam and Seth down to Enoch, 
was Enoch; for after a preparation of sixty-five years 
Enoch was so delighted with the Lord God and so pleas- 
ing to Him that he walked with God for three hundred 
years, or the rest of his life on earth, notwithstanding 
the cursed ground, the thorns and thistles. This was no 
temporary or superficial relationship with God ; it was an 
eternal and whole-hearted friendship. 

Adam and his wife, after reviewing the wonderful 
work of the Lord God for themselves, their children and 
grandchildren, from the time that Seth was born down to 
the birth of Enoch, and indeed after they had witnessed 
and enjoyed the spotless life of Enoch for hundreds of 
years, might have most fittingly exclaimed: "The Lord 



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God be praised ! Now let thy servants depart in peace 
since our eyes have seen and our hearts felt the salvation 
of the Lord God so manifest in our own lives, in the lives 
of our children and of our grandchildren, but above all 
this, do we praise thee, O Lord God, because thou hast 
so demonstrated the graciousness and effectiveness of thy 
saving power in the marvelous development of the life of 
our grandson Enoch, who, though born in this sin-cursed 
earth of sinful parents and reared amidst bitter trials and 
temptations, was by thy saving power so pleasing to thee 
as to walk with thee daily, (for hundreds of years), as 
a companion and as one fitted in every way to dwell with 
thee in the Garden of Eden from which we were driven 
because of our ungodly disobedience." 

After Adam and his wife had been taken away by the 
Lord God, and while He continued His long and delight- 
ful walk with Enoch, it would not be out of the way to 
say that the Lord God in one of those most delightful 
daily walks with Enoch said to him: "Well done, thou 
good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful to me in 
every respect during the past three hundred years, or 
all of thy life, amidst all the trials and temptations of this 
sin-cursed earth, as I have witnessed and approved by thy 
long and constant walk with me. Come thou with me to 
a place (or condition) infinitely better than the Garden of 
Eden and dwell with me and reign with me forever." 

Comparatively soon after Adam and his wife and also 
Enoch were taken from the earth, as time was reckoned 
in those early days, a radical change for the worse took 
place with the descendants of Seth. This was brought 
about as stated in Genesis : 

I. "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply 



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on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto 
them, 

2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that 
they were fair; and they took them wives of all which 
they chose. 

4. There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also 
after that, when the sons of God came in unto the 
daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the 
same became mighty men which were of old, men of 
renown" (Gen. 6: 1, 2, 4). 

The sons of God here may have meant the descendants 
of Seth, and the daughters of men the descendants of 
Cain. The result was summed up in the following state- 
ment: 

5. "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great 
in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts 
of his heart was only evil continually" (Gen. 6:5). 

C. Application of this Salvation to Noah and His 
Family. 

While this was so, in the third generation from Enoch 
there was born to his grandson Lamech a son. 

29. "And he (Lamech) called his name Noah, saying, 
This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil 
of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath 
cursed" (Gen. 5:29). 

8. "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. . . . 

9. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, 
and Noah walked with God" (Gen. 6: 8, 9). 

The wretched condition of Man upon the earth is 
further spoken of in the same record : 

n. "The earth also was corrupt before God; and the 
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12. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was 
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the 
earth" (Gen. 6: 11, 12). 

In view of this awful sight, the Lord God made known 
His purpose to His faithful servant, Noah, as follows : 

13. "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is 
come before me; for the earth is filled with violence 
through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the 
earth. 

14. Make thee an ark of gopher wood ; rooms shalt 
thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and with- 
out with pitch. 

15. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it 
of : The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, 
the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty 
cubits. 

16. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit 
shall thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt 
thou set in the side thereof ; with lower, second, and third 
stories shalt thou make it. 

17. And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters 
upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath 
of life, from under heaven ; and everything that is in the 
earth shall die. 

18. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and 
thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy 
wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 

19. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every 
sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with 
thee; they shall be male and female" (Gen. 6: 13-19). 

Everything was done in perfect accord with what the 
Lord God had told Noah. On the one hand it was an 
awful destruction, the penalty of awful sin against God. 
On the other hand it was a glorious salvation accom- 



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plished through faith in God and His promised righteous- 
ness in Jesus Christ. 

7. "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not 
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the sav- 
ing of his house; by the which he condemned the world, 
and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith" 
(Heb. 11:7). 

After all had been accomplished that had been fore- 
told and promised by the Lord God, when Noah and all 
that were with him in the ark were saved from the flood 
and were come out of the ark, then Noah manifested his 
great faith in the merits of the promised Messiah by his 
prompt, special and large offering to the Lord, all of 
which typifies the one great sacrifice upon Calvary as fol- 
lows : 

20. "And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and 
took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and 
offered burnt-offerings on the altar. 

21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord 
said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any 
more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart 
is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more 
every thing living, as I have done. 

22. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, 
and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and 
night shall not cease" (Gen. 8: 20-22). 

There is not space in this study to make mention of the 
many wonderful and mysterious things which the Lord 
God did for the salvation of His creature — Man. I can 
but make brief references to the most important of them. 
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since they are so generally well known at the present day. 
In all of these visitations of the Lord God to save His 
creature — Man, as they followed each other in succession 
from Adam to Jesus Christ, there was a notable and in- 
creasing manifestation of His power to save, a greater 
number of persons benefited by it and a more abiding and 
lively hope in the all-sufficiency of the Lord's promised 
Messiah. All of this was but preparatory work for our 
salvation and the salvation of the whole world by the 
Lord God. 

9. "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy call- 
ing, not according to our works, but according to his own 
purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus 
before the world began, 

10. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our 
Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath 
brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" 
(2 Tim. 1 19, 10). 

Immediately following Noah's great offering on the 
altar which he built unto the Lord, God blessed him 
and his sons and commissioned them to re-people the 
earth : 

1. "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto 
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth" 
(Gen. 9:1). 

This blessing was accomplished with many and great 
promises and with a great and lasting covenant from the 
Lord. No persons, other than Noah, his three sons and 
their wives, had ever witnessed the mighty power of God 
to destroy and to save. They were also, without doubt, 



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well acquainted with all that the Lord had done with Man 
from Adam and his wife in the Garden of Eden down to 
their own day. It would seem, therefore, that none others 
were ever better qualified than they to people the earth 
with a God-loving, a God-fearing, and a God-serving 
posterity. 

In about the fifth generation from Noah, all of his 
descendants had practically forgotten the Lord. They 
were wholly absorbed in the affairs of the world and of 
their own selfish interests. In their own eyes they had 
become strong and prosperous. In this state of mind 
they communed with each other: 

4. "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a 
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make 
us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of 
the whole earth" (Gen. 11:4). 

But the Lord God was not unmindful of their ungodly 
purpose and dealt with them promptly and effectively : 

7. "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their 
language, that they may not understand one another's 
speech. 

8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence 
upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build 
the city. 

9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the 
Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; 
and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon 
the face of all the earth" (Gen. 11 : 7-9). 

By this action of the Lord it would seem that He 
wanted the whole earth inhabited ; but that the inhabitants 
should be no longer in one family, but should be separated 



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from each other by nations, speaking different languages. 
This, of course, would prevent any hasty combination of 
the inhabitants of the whole earth, contrary to His plans 
and directions, but it would also render the work of the 
Lord for the salvation of Man more complicated and diffi- 
cult. 



XV 

The Lord God Raised up a Peculiar Nation to 
Prepare the Nations of the Earth for the 
Salvation of Jesus Christ 

The next act of the Lord God for the salvation of Man, 
contemplated the building up of a strong nation, peculiar 
to Himself, in the midst of the other strong nations of the 
earth, all of whose inhabitants would at least be believers 
in the one living God. In this way He would make known 
His will more clearly, definitely and effectively, to all the 
other nations of the earth and eventually through this 
nation He would give to the whole world for its complete 
salvation, Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah. 

A. The Lord God Began the Development of This Na- 
tion in a Most Careful Manner, Based upon the Atone- 
ment of Jesus Christ. In the development of this peculiar 
nation the Lord God chose the best time to begin it, soon 
after the first nations were formed; the best location for 
such a nation, Canaan, on the east end of the Mediter- 
ranean Sea, which was destined to be the center of all the 
great nations of the ancient world ; and He chose the 
best and most faithful man for the progenitor of this 
nation, Abram, afterwards called Abraham. 

i. The Call of Abraham. 

The Lord God addressed Abraham as follows : 

I. "Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out 
of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy 
father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : 

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2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will 
bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a 
blessing : 

3. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him 
that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the 
earth be blessed" (Gen. 12: 1-3). 

Abraham forthwith obeyed the Lord and went into the 
land of Canaan. 

7. "And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto 
thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an 
altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. 

8. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the 
east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the 
west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar 
unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord" 
(Gen. 12:7, 8). 

Abraham returned from Egypt where he went because 
of famine, 

3. "And he went on his journeys from the south even 
to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the 
beginning, between Beth-el and Hai ; 

4. Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there 
at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the 
Lord" (Gen. 13:3,4). 

In order that Abraham might be in closer walk with the 
Lord, it was necessary that his nephew be separated from 
him. 

14. "And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot 
was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look 
from the place where thou art northward, and southward, 
and eastward, and westward : 

15. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I 
give it, and to thy seed for ever. 

16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: 



120 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then 
shall thy seed also be numbered. 

17. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and 
in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. 

18. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt 
in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there 
an altar unto the Lord" (Gen. 13: 14-18). 

1. "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, 
the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the 
Almighty God ; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 

2. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, 
and will multiply thee exceedingly. 

3. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with 
him, saying, 

4. As for me, behold my covenant is with thee, and 
thou shalt be a father of many nations. 

5. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, 
but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many 
nations have I made thee. 

6. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will 
make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 

7. And I will establish my covenant between me and 
thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an 
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy 
seed after thee. 

8. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, 
the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of 
Canaan, for an everlasting possession ; and I will be their 
God" (Gen. 17:1-8). 

2. The Test of Abraham. 

In view of all these amazing and significant promises 
to him, Abraham was put to the most severe test of his 
faith that was ever required of any man in the history 
of the world. Without doubt, God knew the great faith 
that Abraham had in Him, that Abraham would not hesi- 
tate to do anything that He would require him to do, be- 



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cause Abraham believed implicitly that God would bring 
to pass all of His promises whether he understood how 
they were to be done or not. Accordingly, God afforded 
Abraham the opportunity to determine his unlimited faith 
in Him, not only for an example to all that would come 
after him, but to enable God Himself to demonstrate how 
much more He was ready to reward great faith in Him 
than men were to exercise such faith. The following was 
the test of Abraham's faith and its results : 

1. "And it came to pass after these things, that God 
did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and 
he said, Behold, here I am. 

2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, 
whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; 
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the 
mountains which I will tell thee of. 

3. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and 
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, 
and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offer- 
ing, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God 
had told him. 

4. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, 
and saw the place afar off. 

5. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye 
here with the ass ; and I and the lad will go yonder and 
worship, and come again to you. 

6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, 
and laid it upon Isaac his son ; and he took the fire in his 
hand, and a knife ; and they went both of them together. 

7. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, 
My Father : and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, 
Behold the fire and the wood : but where is the lamb for 
a burnt-offering? 

8. And Abraham said, My son, God will provide him- 
self a lamb for a burnt-offering: so they went both of 
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122 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

9. And they came to the place which God had told him 
of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood 
in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the 
altar upon the wood. 

10. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took 
the knife to slay his son. 

11. And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of 
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham : and he said, Here 
am I. 

12. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, 
neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that 
thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, 
thine only son from me. 

13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and 
behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns : 
and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up 
for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. 

14. And Abraham called the name of that place Je- 
hovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the 
Lord it shall be seen" (Gen. 22\ 1-14). 

3. Abraham Approved by the Lord God with the Prom- 
ise of Great Blessings. 

15. "And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham 
out of heaven the second time. 

16. And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, 
for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not with- 
held thy son, thine only son, 

17. That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multi- 
plying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, 
and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed 
shall possess the gate of his enemies; 

18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth 
be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice" (Gen. 

22\ I5-l8). 

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daily noted triumphs of faith in the early development of 
God's kingdom upon earth. 

17. "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up 
Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up 
his only begotten son, 

18. Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed 
be called: 

19. Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even 
from the dead; from whence also he received him in a 
figure" (Heb. 11:17-19). 

Much space has been given to this study of the story 
of Abraham, whom God had singled out to be the father 
and pattern of the peculiar nation, which He purposed 
to build up as His witness to the other nations of the 
earth. Abraham was above all others a man of faith in 
God and a man faithful to God. Many and far-reaching 
promises were made by God to Abraham, but for their 
realization his whole life was beset with soul-testing 
trials, all of which he met satisfactorily to God with 
absolute trust in God. What God did for and through 
Abraham and his family, He did, to a greater or less ex- 
tent, for and through other notable leaders, descendants 
of Abraham, and their families, whom He had chosen 
and used, to build up and maintain this peculiar nation for 
Himself, according to the part that each was required to 
do. The following were among the most noted : Isaac, 
Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Caleb, Joshua, Samuel, 
David, and the prophets. Indeed, I might include the 
twelve sons of Jacob, their families and tribes known as 
the Children of Israel, which afterwards constituted the 
Nation of Israel. 

B. The Deliverance of the Children of Israel from the 



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Bondage of Egypt by the Blood of the Passover Lamb, 
Typical of the Blood of Jesus Christ, Our Passover, 
Which Delivers from All Bondage and Sin. When the 
Children of Israel were in Egyptian bondage, God heard 
their cry and delivered them from the Egyptians with self- 
evident demonstrations of His mighty power against the 
Egyptians and for the Children of Israel by ten terrible 
plagues, especially by the tenth spoken of by Moses : 

4. "And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About mid- 
night will I go out into the midst of Egypt : 

5. And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, 
from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, 
even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind 
the mill and all the firstborn of beasts. 

6. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the 
land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be 
like it any more. 

7. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a 
dog move his tongue, against man or beast : that ye may 
know that the Lord doth put a difference between the 
Egyptians and Israel" (Exodus 11 '.4-7). 

The conditions upon which the Children of Israel were 
to be exempt from this terrible visitation upon the Egyp- 
tians and upon which their complete deliverance from 
Egypt would be rendered sure, were as follows : 

1. "And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the 
land of Egypt, saying, 

2. This month shall be unto you the beginning of 
months : it shall be the first month of the year to you. 

3. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, 
In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them 
every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, 
a lamb for an house : 

4. And if the household be too little for the lamb, let 



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him and his neighbor next unto his house take it accord- 
ing to the number of the souls ; every man according to 
his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 

5. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the 
first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from 
the goats : 

6. And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of 
the same month: and the whole assembly of the congre- 
gation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 

7. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the 
two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, 
wherein they shall eat it. 

8. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with 
fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they 
shall eat it. 

9. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but 
roast with fire ; his head with his legs, and with the purte- 
nance thereof. 

10. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morn- 
ing ; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye 
shall burn with fire. 

11. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, 
your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; 
and ye shall eat it in haste : it is the Lord's passover. 

12. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, 
and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both 
man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will 
execute judgment : I am the Lord. 

13. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the 
houses where ye are : and when I see the blood, I will pass 
over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy 
you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 

14. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; 
and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your 
generations ; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for 
ever" (Exodus 12: 1-14). 

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through the Red Sea on dry ground and into the Wilder- 
ness on the way to Canaan, by way of Sinai, wherein for 
forty years He fed them and clothed them and developed 
them into a strong nation. He gave them the best of laws 
and the most complete and beneficent government. 

C. The People of Israel Were Disciplined and Formed 
into a Strong and God-Like Nation by the Sacrifices of 
the Tabernacle, Typical of the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 
The Lord God furnished them with the pattern for their 
tabernacle of worship, with a complete code of ordinances 
that provided for all kinds of sacrifice and offerings unto 
Himself, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, chief of 
which was the yearly passover lamb, commemorating the 
deliverance from Egypt and typifying the sacrifice of 
Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, the promised Messiah. 

When all the parts of the tabernacle and its furniture 
were completed, the Lord commanded Moses to put up 
the tabernacle and furnish it, which he did, putting every 
piece of furniture to the use for which it was designed, 
especially the altar of burnt-offering: 

10. "It shall be an altar most holy," (or holiness of holi- 
nesses, as in the marginal reading). 

29. "And he put the altar of burnt-offering by the door 
of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and 
offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meat-offering; 
as the Lord commanded Moses" (Exodus 40: 10, 29). 

The very great importance with which the Lord re- 
garded the altar of burnt-offering before the door of the 
tabernacle and the blood of atonement that was to be 
offered upon it is most definitely and emphatically ex- 
pressed in the Hebrew revelation : 

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there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which 
sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt-offering or 
sacrifice, 

9. And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle 
of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord ; even that 
man shall be cut off from among his people. 

10. And whatsoever man there be of the house of 
Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that 
eateth any manner of blood ; I will even set my face 
against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off 
from among his people. 

n. For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have 
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for 
your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement 
for the soul" (Lev. 17:8-11). 

When Moses finished the work, the Lord accepted it in 
a most impressive manner: 

34. "Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, 
and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 

35. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of 
the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and 
the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 

36. And when the cloud was taken up from over the 
tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all 
their journeys. 

37. But if the cloud were not taken up, then they 
journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. 

38. For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle 
by day, and the fire was on it by night, in the sight of all 
the house of Israel" (Exodus 40: 34-38). 

At His own time and in His own way that could not 
be misunderstood by the nations round about, the Lord 
God led Israel into the land of Canaan which he promised 
Abraham as recorded in Joshua : 



128 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

9. "And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come 
hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God. 

10. And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the 
living God is among you, and that he will without fail 
drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hit- 
tites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Gir- 
gashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites. 

11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all 
the earth passeth over before you into Jordan. 

12. Now therefore take you twelve men out of the 
tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man. 

13. And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of 
the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the 
Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, 
that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters 
that come down from above; and they shall stand upon 
a heap. 

14. And it came to pass, when the people removed from 
their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing 
the ark of the covenant before the people; 

15. And as they that bare the ark were come unto 
Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were 
dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth 
all his banks all the time of harvest,) 

16. That the waters which came down from above stood 
and rose up upon a heap very far from the city Adam, 
that is beside Zaretan ; and those that came down toward 
the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were 
cut off : and the people passed over right against Jericho. 

17. And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant 
of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of 
Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, 
until all the people were passed clean over Jordan" (Josh. 

3:9-17). 

At the first opportunity after entering the promised 
land the passover feast was kept by Israel : 

10. "And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, 



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and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month 
at even in the plains of Jericho. 

11. And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the 
morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and 
parched corn in the selfsame day" (Josh. 5 : 10-11). 

After bringing the children of Israel into the promised 
land by many marvelous manifestations of His love and 
power, the Lord blessed them in it, in every way, so that 
about four hundred and forty years after entering the 
land it could be said of them as recorded in the book of 
Kings : 

20. "Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is 
by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making 
merry. 

21. And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the 
river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border 
of Egypt : they brought presents, and served Solomon all 
the days of his life. 

22. And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty 
measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, 

23. Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, 
and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and 
fallow deer, and fatted fowl. 

24. For he had dominion over all the region on this side 
the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings 
on this side the river : and he had peace on all sides round 
about him. 

25. And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man 
under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to 
Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon" (1 Kings 4: 20-25). 



XVI 

The Nation of Israel Was Enabled to Exercise a 
World-Wide Influence upon the Nations of 
the Earth by the Sacrifices of the Great 
Temple at Jerusalem, Typical of the Sacrifice 
of Jesus Christ 

After Solomon had completed the magnificent temple at 
Jerusalem, which David, his father, had determined to 
build for the Lord, he instituted a feast of dedication for 
the opening of this temple so great that perhaps none be- 
fore or since could equal it, particularly in the great sacri- 
fices and offerings wherein atonement for sin by blood 
was made, typical of the one Great Atonement made by 
Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah, whose blood was 
shed for the sin of the whole world. Several extracts 
from the record of this wonderful dedication feast will 
serve to show the mind of Solomon and of the Lord as 
to the purpose and use of this temple ; the great benefit it 
would be to the whole nation of Israel in their close and 
united relation and service to the Lord; and the superla- 
tive advantage it would be to the nation of Israel in their 
witnessing for the Lord and His salvation to all the na- 
tions of the earth. 

A. The Bringing the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord 
into the Temple: 

i. "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and 

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all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the 
children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that 
they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord 
out of the city of David, which is Zion. 

2. And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto 
king Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim, which 
is the seventh month. 

3. And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests 
took up the ark. 

4. And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the 
tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels 
that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and 
the Levites bring up. 

5. And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, 
that were assembled unto him, were with him before the 
ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor 
numbered for multitude. 

6. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant 
of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, 
to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cheru- 
bim. 

7. For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over 
the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark 
and the staves thereof above. 

8. And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the 
staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, 
and they were not seen without: and there they are unto 
this day. 

9. There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of 
stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord 
made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they 
came out of the land of Egypt. 

10. And it came to pass, when the priests were come 
out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the 
Lord, 

11. So that the priests could not stand to minister be- 
cause of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled 
the house of the Lord" (I Kings 8: 1-11). 



132 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

B. Solomon's Address to the Congregation of Israel: 

12. "Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would 
dwell in the thick darkness. 

13. I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled 
place for thee to abide in for ever. 

14. And the king turned his face about, and blessed all 
the congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of 
Israel stood; 

15. And he said, Blessed be the 'Lord God of Israel, 
which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and 
hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 

16. Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel 
out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel 
to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I 
chose David to be over my people Israel. 

17. And it was in the heart of David my father to build 
a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel. 

18. And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas 
it was in thine heart to build a house unto my name, thou 
didst well that it was in thine heart. 

19. Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but 
thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall 
build the house unto my name. 

20. And the Lord hath performed his word that he 
spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, 
and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and 
have built a house for the name of the Lord God of 
Israel. 

21. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is 
the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, 
when he brought them out of the land of Egypt" (I 
Kings 8: 12-21). 

C. Solomon's Prayer before the Altar: 

22. "And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord 
in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and 
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23. And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God 
like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keep- 
est covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before 
thee with all their heart : 

24. Who has kept with thy servant David my father 
that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy 
mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this 
day. 

25. Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy 
servant David my father that thou promisedst him, say- 
ing, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on 
the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to 
their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked 
before me. 

26. And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, 
be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David 
my father. 

2J. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, 
the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; 
how much less this house that I have builded ? 

28. Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy serv- 
ant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken 
unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth 
before thee to-day: 

29. That thine eyes may be opened toward this house 
night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast 
said, My name shall be there : that thou mayest hearken 
unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this 
place. 

30. And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, 
and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this 
place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and 
when thou hearest, forgive. . . . 

51. For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which 
thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the 
furnace of iron : 

52. That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication 
of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people 



134 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto 
thee. 

53. For thou didst separate them from among all the 
people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spak- 
est by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou brought- 
est our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God" (I Kings 
8:22-30, 51-53)- 

D, Solomon Blessed All the Congregation of Israel: 

54. "And it was so, that when Solomon had made an 
end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the 
Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from 
kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 

55. And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of 
Israel with a loud voice, saying, 

56. Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his 
people Israel, according to all that he promised: there 
hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which 
he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. 

57. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our 
fathers : let him not leave us, nor forsake us : 

58. That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in 
all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his 
statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our 
fathers. 

59. And let these my words, wherewith I have made 
supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our 
God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his ser- 
vant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the 
matter shall require : 

60. That all the people of the earth may know that the 
Lord is God, and that there is none else. 

61. Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord 
our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his com- 
mandments, as at this day" (1 Kings 8:54-61). 

E. Solomon and All Israel Offered Great Sacrifices: 

62. "And the king and all Israel with him, offered sacri- 
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THE SACRIFICES OF THE TEMPLE 135 

63. "And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, 
which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand 
oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the 
king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of 
the Lord. 

64. The same day did the king hallow the middle of the 
court that was before the house of the Lord : for there he 
offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat 
of the peace offerings; because the brazen altar that was 
before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offer- 
ings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offer- 
ings. 

65. And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel 
with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of 
Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our 
God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 

66. On the eighth day he sent the people away : and they 
blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad 
of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for 
David his servant, and for Israel his people" (I Kings 
8:62-66). 

F. The Answer of the Lord to Solomon: 

12. "And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and 
said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen 
this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 

13. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I 
command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pes- 
tilence among my people ; 

14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall 
humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn 
from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, 
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 

15. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent 
unto the prayer that is made in this place. 

16. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, 
that my name may be there for ever : and mine eyes and 
mine heart shall be there perpetually" (II Chron. 7: 
12-16). 



XVII 

The Nation of Iseael Was Held Together during 
All of Its Existence by the Passover Feast 
with Its Blood-Atoning Sacrifice, Typical of 
the Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ on Cal- 
vary, as by No Other Means 

The nation of Israel, including Judah, which the Lord 
God has raised up and preserved, as His witness, to all 
the other nations of the earth, was held together during 
its entire existence, notwithstanding all of its vicissitudes, 
by the Passover feast with its blood-atoning sacrifice, as 
by no other means. 

The Passover commemorated their deliverance from 
Egyptian bondage by the Lord God and typified the 
great sacrifice for and deliverance from the sin of the 
whole world by the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ, the 
Lamb of God that was slain for the sin of the whole 
world. 

The following are very noted celebrations of the great 
Passover, which manifested to an amazing degree the 
great love and compassion of the Lord God for His people 
Israel, and, in turn, their great joy and gladness for His 
gracious mercy and abounding goodness to them. Ac- 
cordingly, the scriptural accounts of these Passover cele- 
brations are hereby given quite fully, which show beyond 
question the very great importance of the Passover ob- 
servance in the mind both of the Lord God and of His 
people. It served to bring them close together in har- 
monious relationship and service, and thus enable the 

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ISRAEL HELD TOGETHER BY PASSOVER 137 

Lord God to afford His people many, far-reaching and 
lasting benefits together with the forgiveness of their 
sins; and enabled His people to understand Him better, 
to obey His commands more implicitly and to render to 
Him the praise and worship due Him. 

Furthermore, these noted Passover celebrations, at 
greater or less intervals of time, attended by great multi- 
tudes of the nation of Israel, including representatives 
from their people in all the nations, of the then known 
world, served in a most wonderful manner to extend 
the knowledge of the true and living God, to acquaint 
them with His boundless love and plan of salvation for 
sinful men and to prepare them for the coming of the 
promised Messiah, the Redeemer of the world, Jesus 
Christ, the Lamb of God and the Man of Calvary. 

A. The Great Passover Feast, Its Remarkable Atoning 
Sacrifices, held in the Reign of Hezekiah, King of Judah. 

1. "And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and 
wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they 
should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to 
keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel. 

2. For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and 
all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover 
in the second month. 

3. For they could not keep it at that time, because the 
priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither 
had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. 

4. And the thing pleased the king and all the congrega- 
tion. 

5. So they established a decree to make proclamation 
throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that 
they should come to keep the passover unto the Lord God 
of Israel at Jerusalem : for they had not done it of a long 
time in such sort as it was written. 



138 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

6. So the posts went with the letters from the king and 
his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and accord- 
ing to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children 
of Israel, turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham, 
Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of 
you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of 
Assyria. 

7. And be not ye like your fathers, and like your 
brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their 
fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye 
see. 

8. Now be ye not stifTnecked, as your fathers were, but 
yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanc- 
tuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the 
Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn 
away from you. 

9. For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren 
and your children shall find compassion before them that 
lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this 
land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, 
and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return 
unto him. 

10. So the posts passed from city to city, through the 
country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: 
but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. 

n. Nevertheless, divers of Asher and Manasseh and 
of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. 

12. Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them 
one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the 
princes, by the word of the Lord. 

13. And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to 
keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, 
a very great congregation. 

14. And they arose and took away the altars that were 
in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they 
away, and cast them into the brook Kidron. 

15. Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day 
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ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the 
burnt offerings into the house of the Lord. 

16. And they stood in their place after their manner, 
according to the law of Moses the man of God : the priests 
sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of 
the Levites. 

17. For there were many in the congregation that were 
not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of 
the killing of the passovers for every one that was not 
clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord. 

18. For a multitude of the people, even many of 
Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not 
cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover other- 
wise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them 
saying, The good Lord pardon every one 

19. That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord 
God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according 
to the purification of the sanctuary. 

20. And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed 
the people. 

21. And the children of Israel that were present at 
Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days 
with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests 
praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instru- 
ments unto the Lord. 

22. And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the 
Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: 
and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering 
peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God 
of their fathers. 

23. And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other 
seven days : and they kept other seven days with gladness. 

24. For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congre- 
gation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep ; and 
the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks 
and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests 
sanctified themselves. 

25. And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests 



140 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out 
of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of 
Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. 

26. So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the 
time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there 
was not the like in Jerusalem. 

27. Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the 
people : and their voice was heard, and their prayer came 
up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven" (II 
Chron. 30: 1-27). 

B. The Very Notable Passover Feast, Its Multitude of 
Atoning Sacrifices with Great Radical Reforms, Held in 
the Reign of Josiah, the Young King of Judah. 

1. "Moreover, Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in 
Jerusalem : and they killed the passover on the fourteenth 
day of the first month. 

2. And he set the priests in their charges, and encour- 
aged them to the service of the house of the Lord, 

3. And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, 
which were holy unto the Lord, Put the holy ark in the 
house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did 
build ; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders : serve 
now the Lord your God, and his people Israel, 

4. And prepare yourselves by the houses of your 
fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of 
David king of Israel, and according to the writing of 
Solomon his son : 

5. And stand in the holy place according to the divisions 
of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, 
and after the division of the families of the Levites. 

6. So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and 
prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the 
word of the Lord by the hand of Moses. 

7. And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs 
and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were 
present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three 
thousand bullocks : these were of the king's substance. 



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8. And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the 
priests, and to the Levites : Hilkiah and Zechariah and 
Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests 
for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred 
small cattle, and three hundred oxen. 

9. Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his 
brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of 
the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings 
five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen. 

10. So the service was prepared, and the priests stood 
in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according 
to the king's commandment. 

11. And they killed the passover, and the priests 
sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites 
flayed them. 

12. And they removed the burnt offerings, that they 
might give according to the divisions of the families of 
the people, to offer unto the Lord, as it is written in the 
book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen. 

13. And they roasted the passover with fire according 
to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they 
in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them 
speedily among all the people. 

14. And afterward they made ready for themselves, 
and for the priests : because the priests the sons of Aaron 
were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat 
until night ; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, 
and for the priests the sons of Aaron. 

15. And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their 
place, according to the commandment of David, and 
Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer ; and the 
porters waited at every gate ; they might not depart from 
their service ; for their brethren the Levites prepared for 
them. 

16. So all the service of the Lord was prepared the 
same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offer- 
ings upon the altar of the Lord, according to the com- 
mandment of king Josiah. 



142 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

17. And the children of Israel that were present kept 
the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened 
bread seven days. 

18. And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel 
from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the 
kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and 
the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that 
were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 

19. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was 
this passover kept" (II Chron. 35 : 1-19). 

C. The Passover Feast in the Time of Ezra and the 
Significant Letter of Artaxerxes, King of Persia. 
1. The Passover Feast: 

15. "And this house (the temple) was finished on the 
third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year 
of the reign of Darius the king. 

16. And the children of Israel, the priests, and the 
Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept 
the dedication of this house of God with joy, 

17. And offered at the dedication of this house of God 
an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred 
lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he 
goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. 

18. And they set the priests in their divisions, and the 
Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is 
at Jerusalem ; as it is written in the book of Moses. 

19. And the children of the captivity kept the passover 
upon the fourteenth day of the first month. 

20. For the priests and the Levites were purified to- 
gether, all of them were pure, and killed the passover 
for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren 
the priests, and for themselves. 

21. And the children of Israel, which were come again 
out of captivity, and all such as had separated them- 
selves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the 
land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat, 

22. And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days 



ISRAEL HELD TOGETHER BY PASSOVER 143 

with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful, and turned 
the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen, 
their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of 
Israel" (Ezra 6: 15-22). 

2. The Letter of Artaxerxes, King of Persia : 

11. "Now this is the copy of the letter that the king 
Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a 
scribe of the words of the commandments of the Lord, 
and his statutes to Israel. 

12. Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a 
scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and 
at such a time. 

13. 1 make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, 
and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are 
minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go 
with thee. 

14. Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his 
seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jeru- 
salem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine 
hand; 

15. And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and 
his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, 
whose habitation is in Jerusalem, 

16. And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all 
the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the 
people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house 
of their God which is in Jerusalem : 

17. That thou mayest buy speedily with this money 
bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their 
drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the 
house of your God which is in Jerusalem. 

18. And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy 
brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, 
that do after the will of your God. 

19. The vessels also that are given thee for the service 
of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the 
God of Jerusalem. 



144 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

20. And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house 
of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, 
bestow it out of the king's treasure house. 

21. And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a de- 
cree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that 
whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the 
God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily. 

22. Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hun- 
dred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, 
and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescrib- 
ing how much. 

23. Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, 
let it be diligently done for the house of the God of 
heaven : for why should there be wrath against the realm 
of the king and his sons ? 

24. Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests 
and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinim, or ministers of 
this house of God it shall not be lawful to impose toll, 
tribute, or custom, upon them. 

25. And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that 
is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may 
judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as 
know the laws of thy God ; and teach ye them that know 
them not. 

26. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and 
the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily 
upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or 
to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. 

27. Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath 
put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the 
house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem: 

28. And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, 
and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty 
princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the Lord 
my God was upon me, and I gathered out of Israel chief 
men to go up with me" (Ezra 7: 11-28). 

D. The Last and Most Significant Passover Feast Cele- 



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brated by Jesus Christ and His Apostles, When the Pass- 
over Feast Ended with the Beginning of the Supper of the 
Lord, and When the Typical Atonement Ended with the 
Manifestation of the All-Satisfying Atonement of Jesus 
Christ, the Saviour of the World. 

7. "Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the 
passover must be killed. 

8. And he (Jesus Christ) sent Peter and John, saying, 
Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. 

9. And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we 
prepare ? 

10. And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered 
into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher 
of water; follow him into the house where he entereth 
in. 

11. And ye shall say unto the good man of the house, 
The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, 
where I shall eat the passover with my disciples ? 

12. And he shall shew you a large upper room fur- 
nished : there make ready. 

13. And they went, and found as he had said unto them : 
and they made ready the passover. 

14. And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the 
twelve apostles with him. 

15. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired 
to eat this passover with you before I suffer : 

16. For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, 
until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 

17. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, 
Take this, and divide it among yourselves : 

18. For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of 
the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come" (Luke 
22:7-18). 

Four most noteworthy circumstances are very closely 
related to this passover feast, kept by the Lord Jesus 
Christ with His Apostles. 



146 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

i. At this passover feast the last offering of the blood 
of animals was made that could, as a typical sacrifice, 
make an atonement for the sin of Israel, since the anti- 
type, Jesus Christ, was then at hand and ready to be 
offered up for the sin of the world, whose shed blood only 
could make a complete atonement for any and all sin. 

2. The Lord, Himself, was present at this last typical 
sacrifice of the blood of animals in Jerusalem to make an 
atonement for the sin of Israel, who was also present at 
the first typical offering of the blood of animals in the 
Garden of Eden to make an atonement for the first sin of 
the first man Adam and his wife. 

3. At the close of this, its last true celebration, the 
passover feast of Israel, which meant so much in every 
way to that people, was changed, without the slightest 
intermission, to the Supper of the Lord, by the Lord 
Himself, to commemorate for all time the only true atone- 
ment for sin, the sacrifice of His body and blood for the 
salvation of the whole world, including Israel. 

The Lord's Supper: 

19. "And he took the bread, and gave thanks, and brake 
it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is 
given for you : this do in remembrance of me. 

20. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This 
cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for 
you" (Luke 22: 19, 20). 

Statement of the Lord's Supper by the Apostle Paul 

23. "For I have received of the Lord that which also I 
delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night 
in which he was betrayed, took bread : 

24. And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and 
said, Take, eat ; this is my body, which is broken for you : 
this do in remembrance of me. 



ISRAEL HELD TOGETHER BY PASSOVER 147 

25. After the same manner also he took the cup, when 
he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in 
my blood : this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance 
of me. 

26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, 
ye do shew the Lord's death till he come" (I Cor. 
11 : 23-26). 

4. With the passing of the Passover, at this its last true 
feast, the nation of Israel ceased to exist as the one na- 
tional witness of the Lord God to the other nations of 
the earth. Its special mission had been accomplished. 
Its promised Messiah had come. The Kingdom limited 
to one exclusive people must give place to a kingdom 
that would include the people of the entire world. The 
natural and earthly kingdom must give place to a spiritual 
and heavenly kingdom and the temporal kingdom to an 
eternal kingdom. 



XVIII 

Three Great Outstanding Facts Pertaining to the 
Nation of Israel 

A. The Only Nation of Its Time That Worshiped the 
Living God and believed in the Promised Messiah. The 
people of Israel constituted the first nation in the whole 
earth that worshiped the only true and living God, and 
believed in the promised Messiah. During the long 
period of its entire existence it was the only nation that 
did so. 

This was not the result of its own choice and endeavor. 
It was the work of the Lord God, Himself. By His 
amazing grace, long-suffering, ever-present direction and 
all-sufficient helpfulness, He raised up and maintained 
this nation in the face of innumerable and almost insur- 
mountable difficulties and oppositions, to prepare the way 
for His own universal, heavenly and eternal kingdom. 

Among the multitude of notable things the Lord God 
did for the nation of Israel, that they might know with 
certainty that He was the only true and living God, are 
the following: He so blessed them while slaves in Egypt 
that they increased wonderfully, both in numbers and in 
strength. With wonder-working power He delivered 
them from Egyptian bondage, brought them through the 
Red Sea on dry ground, fed them and clothed them in 
the wilderness for forty years, and disciplined them into 
a strong, intelligent and God-fearing nation. 

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THREE GREAT OUTSTANDING FACTS 149 

Afterwards He led them through the river Jordan on 
dry ground into the land of Canaan, promised them 
through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and gave it to them 
for an everlasting possession. 

In their earliest development as a nation, He gave them 
Moses, the greatest leader, law-giver and religious dis- 
ciplinarian of all time, and Joshua, a man like unto him. 

When they began to exercise the functions of a nation, 
He provided them with noble and trustworthy judges, one 
of whom was Samuel, doubtless the best and truest judge 
that ever lived. In answer to their persistent request for 
a king, He raised up David as a pattern, who was the 
best, the greatest and the most God-like king that ever 
ruled over an earthly kingdom. He also gave them many 
wise men, among whom was Solomon, the wisest of men. 

When their rulers failed them and turned away from 
the Lord God, and when they were dispersed as captives 
in strange lands, the Lord God gave them many God-fear- 
ing and God-honoring prophets, with whom He conferred 
directly, as infallible guides. Of these, perhaps Elijah, 
Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel were the 
greatest. 

The Lord God also raised up mighty kings as their 
helpers in their times of need, chief of whom were Hiram, 
king of Tyre, Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of 
Persia. Inasmuch as the nation of Israel was developed, 
and existed in the beginning of the dealings of the Lord 
God with nations, it was necessary that He should give 
Israel the knowledge of Himself and of His will in a very 
plain and unmistakable, kindergarten manner. Accord- 
ingly, the Lord God manifested Himself and made known 
His will to Israel in many ways and in such a manner as 



150 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

to leave no doubt of His existence, as the true and living 
God, as well as of what He surely wanted them to do. 

B. The Holy Scriptures, the Book of Salvation through 
Jesus Christ, Given to the World Through the Nation of 
Israel. It was through the nation of Israel and its holy 
men, in all of its many generations of universal expe- 
rience, as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, that the 
Holy Scriptures were given by the Lord God to the world. 
These scriptures, including the Old and New Testaments, 
constitute the only true and entire revelation of the Lord 
God to Man. 

5. "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, 
even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should 
do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 

6. Keep therefore and do them ; for this is your wis- 
dom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, 
which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this 
great nation is a wise and understanding people. 

7. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so 
nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that 
we call upon him for? 

8. And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes 
and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set 
before you this day?" (Deut. 4:5-8). 

19. "He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and 
his judgments unto Israel. 

20. He hath not dealt so with any nation : and as for his 
judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the 
Lord." (Psalm 147: 19, 20). 

1. "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit 
is there of circumcision? 

2. Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them 
were committed the oracles of God" (Rom. 3 : 1, 2). 

19. "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; 
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light 



THREE GREAT OUTSTANDING FACTS 151 

that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the 
day star arise in your hearts : 

20. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scrip- 
ture is of any private interpretation. 

21. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will 
of man : but holy men of God spake as they were moved 
by the Holy Ghost" (II Peter 1 : 19-21). 

16. "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and 
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 
instruction in righteousness : 

17. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly 
furnished unto all good works" (II Tim. 3 : 16, 17). 

The following is the testimony of Jesus Christ Himself 
concerning the Hebrew Scriptures : 

39. "Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye 
have eternal life : and they are they which testify of me" 
(John 5: 39). 

1. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners 
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 

2. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, 
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also 
he made the worlds" (Heb. 1 : 1, 2). 

1. "This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; 
in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of re- 
membrance : 

2. That ye may be mindful of the words which were 
spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the com- 
mandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour" 
(II Peter 3: 1, 2). 

C. Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Saviour of the 
World, Came of the Nation of Israel. 

Last, and above all other things, through this nation of 
Israel was given to Man Jesus Christ, the seed of the 
woman, the promised Messiah, the Christ, the Son of the 
living God, the Saviour of the world. 



152 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

The following are a few of the many Scriptures which 
show that Jesus Christ, as pertaining to the flesh, came of 
the nation of Israel, and not only so, but of Abraham and 
David, to whom the greatest promises were made by the 
Lord God. 

i. "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the 
son of David, the son of Abraham. . . . 

17. So all the generations from Abraham to David are 
fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying 
away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from 
the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen 
generations" (Matt. 1: 1, 17). 

10. "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, 
behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall 
be to all people. 

11. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a 
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2: 10, 11). 

16. "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels ; 
but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 

17. Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made 
like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful high 
priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation 
for the sins of the people. 

18. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, 
he is able to succour them that are tempted" (Heb. 
2:16-18). 

1. "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heav- 
enly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our 
profession, Christ Jesus ; 

2. Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also 
Moses was faithful in all his house. 

5. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a 
servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be 
spoken after; 

6. But Christ as a son over his own house ; whose house 
are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of 
the hope firm unto the end" (Heb. 3 : 1, 2, 5, 6). 



THREE GREAT OUTSTANDING FACTS 153 

5. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will 
raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall 
reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice 
in the earth. 

6. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall 
dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be 
called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Jer. 
23:5,6). 

21. "And afterward they desired a king: and God gave 
unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of 
Benjamin, by the space of forty years. 

22. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto 
them David to be their king; to whom also he gave 
testimony, and said, I have found David the son of 
Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all 
my will. 

23. Of this man's seed hath God, according to his 
promise, raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus" (Acts 
13:21-23). 

1. "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an 
apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 

2. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in 
the holy Scriptures.) 

3. Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which 
was made of the seed of David according to the flesh ; 

4. And declared to be the Son of God with power, ac- 
cording to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from 
the dead" (Rom. 1 : 1-4). 

10. "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, 
which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall 
the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious" (Isa. 
n : 10). 

8. "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the 
circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises 
made unto the fathers : 

9. And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his 
mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to 
thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. 



154 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

io. And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his 
people. 

n. And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and 
laud him, all ye people. 

12. And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of 
Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles ; in 
him shall the Gentiles trust" (Rom. 15:8-12). 

5. "And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: 
behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, 
hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven 
seals thereof. . . . 

9. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy 
to take the book, and to open the seals thereof : for thou 
wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out 
of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation" 
(Rev. 5:5, 9). 

16. "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you 
these things in the churches. I am the root and the off- 
spring of David, and the bright and morning star" (Rev. 

22\ l6). 

16. "Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I lay in Zion 
for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious 
corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall 
not make haste" (Isa. 28: 16). 

3. "If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 

4. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed 
indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 

5. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual 
house, an holy pristhood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, 
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 

6. Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, Be- 
hold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: 
and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded" 
(I Peter 2:3-6). 



XIX 

Many Definite Promises of Salvation to Man by an 
All-Sufficient Saviour and Most Significant 
Types of Its Accomplishment, Their Fulfil- 
ment and Realization 

From the fall of Man in the Garden of Eden to the 
passing away of Israel, as a nation, the Lord God had 
given to Man many and definite promises that He would 
send him an all-merciful, almighty and all-sufficient 
Saviour, not only to deliver him from sin and all its con- 
sequences, but to afford him infinitely more than he had 
lost in the Garden of Eden. 

He also had given Man many and very significant types 
of this wonderful Saviour and the manner in which His 
marvelous salvation would be accomplished. 

The time, however, so long delayed, had come for the 
promises to be fulfilled and the types to be realized. Ac- 
cordingly all the promises and types were wonderfully 
fulfilled and realized after the manner indicated by the 
particular promises and types. 

4. "But when the fulness of the time was come, God 
sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 

5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we 
might receive the adoption of sons. 

6. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the 
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 

7. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son ; 
and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ" (Gal. 
4:4-7). 

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156 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

A. The Promises and their Fulfilment. The following 
very remarkable promises, from many others, chiefly 
given to the nation of Israel, together with their very re- 
markable fulfilment, are of the deepest interest and of the 
greatest value to the whole world of mankind. 

1. The promise: 

14. "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; 
Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall 
call his name Immanuel" (Isa. 7: 14). 

The fulfilment: 

18. "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: 
When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before 
they came together, she was found with child of the Holy 
Ghost. 

19. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not 
willing to make her a public example, was minded to put 
her away privily. 

20. But while he thought on these things, behold, the 
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, 
Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee 
Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of 
the Holy Ghost. 

21. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call 
his name JESUS : for he shall save his people from their 
sins. 

22. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled 
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 

23. Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which 
being interpreted is, God with us. 

24. Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the 
angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his 
wife: 

25. And knew her not till she had brought forth her 
firstborn son: and he called his name Jesus" (Matt. 
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DEFINITE PROMISES OF SALVATION 157 

The fulfilment of this first promise was more to Man 
than was lost in the Garden of Eden. Then it was Man 
with God in that garden for a very limited time ; now it is 
God with Man forever. 

2. The promise : 

6. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : 
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty 
God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 

7. Of the increase of his government and peace there 
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment 
and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal 
of the Lord of Hosts will perform this" (Isa. 9 : 6, 7). 

The fulfilment : 

26. "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent 
from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 

2J. To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was 
Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was 
Mary. 

28. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou 
that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art 
thou among women. 

29. And when she saw him she was troubled at his say- 
ing, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this 
should be. 

30. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for 
thou hast found favour with God. 

31. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 

32. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto Him the 
throne of his father David: 

33. And He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever ; 
and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 



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34. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, 
seeing I know not a man ? 

35. And the angel answered and said unto her, The 
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the 
Highest shall overshadow thee : therefore also that holy 
thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son 
of God" (Luke 1:26-35). 

3. The promise: 

15. "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy 
head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" (Gen. 3 115). 

The fulfilment: 

8. "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil 
sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of 
God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of 
the devil" (I John 3:8). 

1. "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilder- 
ness to be tempted of the devil. 

2. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, 
he was afterward an hungered. 

3. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou 
be the Son of God, command that these stones be made 
bread. 

4. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall 
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth 
out of the mouth of God. 

5. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and 
setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 

6. And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast 
thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels 
charge concerning thee : and in their hands they shall bear 
thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a 
stone. 

7. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt 
not tempt the Lord thy God. 

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mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, 
and the glory of them ; 

9. And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, 
if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 

10. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: 
for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, 
and him only shalt thou serve. 

11. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels 
came and ministered unto him" (Matt. 4: 1-11). 

14. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of 
flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the 
same; that through death he might destroy him that had 
the power of death, that is, the devil ; 

15. And deliver them, who through fear of death were 
all their lifetime subject to bondage. 

16. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels ; 
but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 

17. Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made 
like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and 
faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make 
reconciliation for the sins of the people. 

18. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, 
he is able to succour them that are tempted" (Heb. 
2: 14-18). 

4. The promise: 

1. "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the 
Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the 
meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to 
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the 
prison to them that are bound ; 

2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the 
day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all that mourn ; 

3. To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give 
unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, 
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that 
they might be called trees of righteousness, The planting 
of the Lord, that he might be glorified" (Isa. 61 : 1-3). 



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The fulfilment: 

1 6. "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been 
brought up : and, as his custom was, he went into the syn- 
agogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 

17. And there was delivered unto him the book of the 
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he 
found the place where it was written, 

18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath 
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent 
me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the 
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at 
liberty them that are bruised, 

19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 

20. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the 
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that 
were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 

21. And he began to say unto them, This day is this 
Scripture fulfilled in your ears. 

22. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gra- 
cious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they 
said, Is not this Joseph's son?" (Luke 4: 16-22.) 

5. The promise: 

1. "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the 
arm of the Lord revealed ? 

2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, 
and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor 
comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty 
that we should desire him. 

3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of 
sorrows, and acquainted with grief : and we hid as it 
were our faces from him; he was despised, and we 
esteemed him not. 

4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
rows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, 
and afflicted. 

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bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace 
was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed. 

6. All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned 
every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on him 
the iniquity of us all. 

7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened 
not his mouth : he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, 
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth 
not his mouth. 

8. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and 
who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out 
of the land of the living: for the transgression of my 
people was he stricken. 

9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the 
rich in his death ; because he had done no violence, neither 
was any deceit in his mouth. 

10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put 
him to grief : when thou shalt make his soul an offer- 
ing for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his 
days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his 
hand. 

11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be 
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant 
justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 

12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, 
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he 
hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was num- 
bered with the transgressors : and he bare the sin of many, 
and made intercession for the transgressors" (Isa. 
53:i-i2). 

The fulfilment of this extraordinary itemized promise 
will be found in the following Scriptures, wherein the trial 
and crucifixion of Jesus Christ are given in detail, namely, 
the twenty-seventh chapter of Matthew, the fifteenth 
chapter of Mark, the twenty- third chapter of Luke and 
the eighteenth and nineteenth chapters of John. 



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B. The Types and Their Realization. 

I. Passover Types and Their Realization. 

All the typical passover sacrifices, from the first in 
Egypt to the last in Jerusalem, in which Jesus and His 
apostles had a part, were realized on the day following 
the last at Jerusalem, by the sacrifice of the great anti- 
type, Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews, who was the 
only true passover for Israel and for the whole world. 

7. "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a 
new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our 
passover is sacrificed for us" (I Cor. 5:7). 

The sacrifice of the true passover, Jesus Christ, was 
infinitely more meritorious than all the typical passover 
sacrifices that preceded it. 

The blood of the typical passover sacrifice, when 
sprinkled upon the side posts and lintels of their dwell- 
ings, served to save the Hebrew slaves from the destroy- 
ing angel that passed over them in Egypt ; but did not take 
away their sin. 

The blood of Jesus Christ, however, the true passover 
sacrifice, not only delivers from the destroying angel, but 
cleanses from all sin. 

7. "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we 
have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus 
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin" (I John 1:7). 

2. Typical Offerings for Sin and Their Realization. 

All the typical offerings of the blood of animals for sin, 
including the first offering in the Garden of Eden, down 
to and including all such offerings under the ceremonial 
law of Moses, though offered by the humblest individual, 



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the high priest, or by the Lord God in the Garden of 
Eden, derived all their real virtues from, and had their 
complete realization in the offering of the blood of the 
great anti-type, Jesus Christ, on the cross of Calvary. 
When He was thus offered, the vail of the earthly temple 
or sanctuary in Jerusalem was rent in twain from the 
top to the bottom, and the time and place for typical 
offerings of the blood of animals for sin had passed for- 
ever. This is clearly set forth in the book of Hebrews : 

1. "Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances 
of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 

2. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein 
was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; 
which is called the sanctuary. 

3. And after the second vail, the tabernacle which is 
called the holiest of all; 

4. Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the 
covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the 
golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, 
and the tables of the covenant; 

5. And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the 
mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 

6. Now when these things were thus ordained, the 
priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplish- 
ing the service of God. 

7. But into the second went the high priest alone once 
every year, not without blood, which he offered for him- 
self, and for the errors of the people : 

8. The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into 
the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the 
first tabernacle was yet standing: 

9. Which was a figure for the time then present, in 
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could 
not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to 
the conscience. 

10. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers 



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washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until 
the time of reformation. 

n. But Christ being come a high priest of good things 
to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not 
made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 

12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his 
own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having 
obtained eternal redemption for us. 

13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes 
of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the puri- 
fying of the flesh : 

14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who 
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot 
to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve 
the living God? 

15. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new 
testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of 
the transgressions that were under the first testament, 
they which are called might receive the promise of eternal 
inheritance. 

16. For where a testament is, there must also of neces- 
sity be the death of the testator. 

17. For a testament is of force after men are dead : 
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator 
liveth. 

18. Whereupon neither the first testament was dedi- 
cated without blood. 

19. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the 
people according to the law,' he took the blood of calves 
and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, 
and sprinkled both the book, and all the people. 

20. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which 
God hath enjoined unto you. 

21. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the taber- 
nacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 

22. And almost all things are by the law purged with 
blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 

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things in the heavens should be purified with these; but 
the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than 
these. 

24. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made 
with hands which are the figures of the true; but into 
heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for 
us: 

25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the 
high priest entereth into the holy place every year with 
blood of others; 

26. For then must he often have suffered since the 
foundation of the world : but now once in the end of the 
world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice 
of himself. 

2.J. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but 
after this the judgment: 

28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many ; 
and unto them that look for him shall he appear the 
second time without sin unto salvation" (Heb. 9: 1-28). 

1. "For the law having a shadow of good things to 
come, and not the very image of the things, can never 
with those sacrifices which they offered year by year con- 
tinually make the comers thereunto perfect. 

2. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? 
because that the worshipers once purged should have 
had no more conscience of sins. 

3. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again 
made of sins every year. 

4. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of 
goats should take away sins. 

5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, 
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast 
thou prepared me : 

6. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast 
had no pleasure. 

7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book 
it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 

8. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and 



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burnt-offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, 
neither hadst pleasure therein ; which are offered by the 
law; 

9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He 
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 

10. By the which will we are sanctified through the 
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 

11. And every priest standeth daily ministering and 
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never 
take away sins : 

12. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for 
sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God ; 

13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made 
his footstool. 

14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them 
that are sanctified. 

15. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us : for 
after that he had said before, 

16. This is the covenant that I will make with them 
after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into 
their hearts, and in their minds will I write them ; 

17. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no 
more. 

18. Now where remission of these is, there is no more 
offering for sin. 

19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into 
the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 

20. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated 
for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh ; 

21. And having an high priest over the house of God; 

22. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance 
of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil con- 
science, and our bodies washed with pure water. 

23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith with- 
out wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 

24. And let us consider one another to provoke unto 
love and to good works : 

25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, 



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as the manner of some is ; but exhorting one another : and 
so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 

26. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received 
the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more 
sacrifice for sins, 

2J. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and 
fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 

28. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy 
under two or three witnesses : 

29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall 
he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the 
Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, 
wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath 
done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" (Heb. 10: 1-29). 

C. Marked Differences Between the Typical Sacrifice 
of Animals and the Sacrifice of the Great Antitype, Jesus 
Christ, the Son of God. 

In this connection it is well to note the very marked 
differences between the typical sacrifices of animals for 
sin and the sacrifice of the great antitype, Jesus Christ, 
the Son of God. 

I. The typical offering of the life of animals for sins 
never took away sins, but made a remembrance only of 
sins. 

3. "But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again 
made of sins every year. 

4. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of 
goats should take away sins" (Heb. 10: 3, 4). 

While the offering of the life of Jesus Christ for sin 
not only takes away sin, but the conscience of sin. 

II. "But Christ being come an high priest of good 
things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, 
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 

12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his 



168 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having 
obtained eternal redemption for us. 

13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes 
of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the 
purifying of the flesh: 

14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who 
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to 
God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the 
living God?" (Heb. 9: 11-14). 

2. When the animal in the typical sacrifice for sin was 
slain, it never lived again ; but when Jesus Christ gave His 
life for the sin of the world, He arose again from the 
dead, ascended to heaven, is at the right hand of God and 
ever maketh intercession for us. 

34. "Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, 
yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right 
hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us" (Rom. 

8:34). 

25. "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the 
uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever 
liveth to make intercession for them" (Heb. 7: 25). 

3. The animal of the typical sacrifice for sin had no 
power to prevent the sacrifice of its life, or to take it back 
again; but Jesus Christ had the power over His human 
life, both to lay it down and to take it again. 

18. "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down Gf 
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power 
to take it again. This commandment have I received of 
my Father" (John 10: 18). 

4. The animal of the typical sacrifice for sin was an 
unwilling offering on its part ; but Jesus Christ laid down 
His life willingly for the sin of the world that He might 
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17. "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay 
down my life, that I might take it again" (John 10: 17). 

In fact He left His abode in heaven to do the whole 
will of God, the Father, for the salvation of Man, at what- 
ever cost. 

9. "Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He 
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 

10. By the which will we are sanctified through the 
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all" (Heb. 
10:9, 10). 

D. Evident Conclusions. From the foregoing it is very 
evident, 

1. That Jesus Christ was the complete fulfilment of all 
the promises of the Lord God to Man, of an all-sufficient 
Saviour from his utterly lost and most deplorable condi- 
tion; and, 

2. That His death on the cross of Calvary was the com- 
plete realization of the full atonement made for all the 
sin of Man, which was foreshadowed by all the typical 
offerings of the lives of animals as enjoined by the Lord 
God, that ever preceded it. 

19. "For it pleased the Father that in him should all 
the fulness dwell; 

20. And, having made peace through the blood of his 
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself ; by him, 
I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 

21. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies 
in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 

22. In the body of his flesh through death, to present 
you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight" 
(Col. 1 : 19-22). 



XX 

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only Saviour of 

Mankind 

From the abundance of Scripture testimony there can 
be but one correct conclusion, that Jesus Christ, the Son 
of God, was the only all-sufficient Saviour, promised and 
raised up by the Lord God, for the complete salvation of 
all men. 

The following Scriptures, from the many more that 
could be cited, will serve to demonstrate the truthfulness 
of the above statement. 

9. "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, 
because that God sent his only begotten Son into the 
world, that we might live through him. . . . 

14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father 
sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world" (I John 

4:9,14). 

3. "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God 
our Saviour ; 

4. Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto 
the knowledge of the truth. 

5. For there is one God, and one mediator between God 
and men, the man Christ Jesus ; 

6. Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in 
due time" (I Tim. 2:3-6). 

24. "But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an 
unchangeable priesthood. 

25. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the utter- 
most that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to 
make intercession for them. 

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26. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, 
harmless, undented, separate from sinners, and made 
higher than the heavens; 

2J. Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to 
offer up sacrifice first for his own sins, and then for the 
people's: for this he did once, when he offered up him- 
self" (Heb. 7:24-27). 

1. "My little children, these things write I unto you, 
that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate 
with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous : 

2. And he is the propitiation for our sins : and not for 
ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world" (I 
John 2: 1, 2). 

38. "Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, 
that through this man is preached unto you the forgive- 
ness of sins : 

39. And by him all that believe are justified from all 
things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of 
Moses" (Acts 13:38, 39). 

9. "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than 
the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory 
and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste 
death for every man" (Heb. 2:9). 

10. "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of 
Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, 
whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, 
even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 

11. This is the stone which was set at nought of you 
builders, which is become the head of the corner. 

12. Neither is there salvation in any other; for there 
is none other name under heaven given among men, 
whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4: 10-12). 



XXI 

Jesus Christ, the Last King of Israel 

Jesus Christ was the last King of Israel on the throne 
of His father David, and of His kingdom there shall be 
no end. 

1. It was foretold that He would be such a king. 

6. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : 
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty 
God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 

7. Of the increase of his government and peace there 
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment 
and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal 
of the Lord of hosts will perform this" (Isa. 9: 6, 7). 

5. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will 
raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall 
reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice 
in the earth. 

6. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall 
dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he shall be 
called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Jer. 

2. "But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be 
little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall 
he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel ; whose 
goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 

3. Therefore will he give them up, until the time that 
she which travaileth hath brought forth : then the remnant 
of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel" 
(Micah5:2, 3). 

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30. "And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary : for 
thou hast found favour with God. 

31. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 

32. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest : and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne 
of his father David: 

33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever ; 
and of his kingdom there shall be no end" (Luke 

i:30-33)- 

2. He was born King of the Jews. Attested to by the 
wise men from the East. 

1. "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea 
in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise 
men from the east to Jerusalem, 

2. Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? 
for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to 
worship him" (Matt. 2:1, 2). 

Positively stated by Jesus Christ Himself in answer to 
Pilate's question: 

37. "Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king 
then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. 
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the 
world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every- 
one that is of the truth heareth my voice" (John 18: 37). 

3. His triumphant entry into Jerusalem was as King 
of Israel. 

1. "And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Beth- 
phage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth 
forth two of his disciples, 

2. And saith unto them, Go your way into the village 
over against you : and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye 
shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, 
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3. And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say 
ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he 
will send him hither. 

4. And they went their way, and found the colt tied 
by the door without in a place where two ways met ; and 
they loose him. 

5. And certain of them that stood there said unto them, 
What do ye, loosing the colt ? 

6. And they said unto them even as Jesus had com- 
manded : and they let them go. 

7. And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their 
garments on him ; and he sat upon him. 

8. And many spread their garments in the way: and 
others cut down branches off the trees, and strewed 
them in the way. 

9. And they that went before, and they that followed, 
cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the 
name of the Lord : 

10. Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that 
cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. 

11. And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the 
temple: and when he had looked round about upon all 
things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto 
Bethany with the twelve" (Mark 11:1-11). 

This was done in fulfilment of the prophecy in Zech- 
ariah. 

9. "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O 
daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto 
thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding 
upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 

10. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and 
the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut 
off : and he shall speak peace unto the heathen : and his 
dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the 
river even to the ends of the earth" (Zech. 9:9, 10). 

4. He was tried before Pilate, the Roman Governor, 



CHRIST, THE LAST KING OF ISRAEL 175 

and brutally treated by the Roman soldiers as the King of 
the Jews. 

1. "And straightway in the morning the chief priests 
held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the 
whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, 
and delivered him to Pilate. 

2. And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the 
Jews ? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. 

3. And the chief priests accused him of many things: 
but he answered nothing. 

4. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou 
nothing? behold how many things they witness against 
thee. 

5. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate 
marvelled. 

6. Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, 
whomsoever they desired. 

7. And there was one named Barabbas, which lay 
bound with them that had made insurrection with him, 
who had committed murder in the insurrection. 

8. And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him 
to do as he had done unto them. 

9. But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I re- 
lease unto you the King of the Jews? 

10. For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him 
for envy. 

11. But the chief priests moved the people, that he 
should rather release Barabbas unto them. 

12. And Pilate answered and said again unto them, 
What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call 
the King of the Jews ? 

13. And they cried out again, Crucify him. 

14. Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath 
he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, 
Crucify him. 

15. And so Pilate, willing to content the people, re- 
leased Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when 
he had scourged him, to be crucified. 



176 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

1 6. And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called 
Prsetorium; and they called together the whole band. 

17. And they clothed him with purple, and platted a 
crown of thorns, and put it about his head, 

18. And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews ! 

19. And they smote him on the head with a reed, and 
did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped 
him. 

20. And when they had mocked him, they took off the 
purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led 
him out to crucify him" (Mark 15: 1-20). 

5. He was crucified as the King of the Jews. 

38. "And a superscription also was written over him in 
letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE 
KING OF THE JEWS" (Luke 23:38). 

6. The chief priests and others mocked Him on the 
cross as the King of Israel. 

31. "Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among 
themselves with the scribes, He saved others ; himself he 
cannot save. 

32. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the 
cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were 
crucified with him reviled him" (Mark 15:31, 32). 

7. The penitent thief who was crucified with Jesus 
recognized Him as the true King and Saviour of Israel. 

42. "And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when 
thou comest into thy kingdom. 

43. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, 
Today shalt thou be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:42, 
43). 

8. Jesus Christ was not only the King of all Israel, but 
its last King, for He was given the throne of His Father 



CHRIST, THE LAST KING OF ISRAEL 177 

David, and was to reign over the house of Jacob for ever, 
according to the annunciation of the angel Gabriel to His 
mother, Mary. 

30. "And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary : for 
thou hast found favour with God. 

31. "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 

32. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest : and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne 
of his father David : 

33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever ; 
and of his kingdom there shall be no end" (Luke 
i:30-33)- 



XXII 

The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Not of This World 

Jesus Christ declared very positively to Pilate that His 
kingdom was not of this world. 

"Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if 
my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants 
fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews : but now 
is my kingdom not from hence" (John 18: 36). 

In consequence of this statement, Pilate inquired 
further of Him. 

37. "Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king 
then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. 
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into 
the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. 
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice" (John 

18:37). 

During His whole sojourn on the earth, He never ex- 
ercised the functions of an earthly king save, perhaps, by 
His royal entrance into Jerusalem. 

At the last passover feast in Jerusalem, as before 
stated, Jesus changed that feast, without the slightest 
intermission, to the Supper of the Lord. So during His 
sojourn on the earth, as the last King of Israel, he 
changed without intermission, the limited, natural, earthly 
and temperal kingdom of Israel to the universal, spiritual, 
heavenly and eternal kingdom of God for all men. This 

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THE KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST 179 

was determined upon by Him with God and the Father 
before He came into the world. 

9. "Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He 
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second" 
(Heb. 10:9). 

He subordinated the limited to the universal, the 
natural to the spiritual, the earthly to the heavenly and 
the temporal to the eternal. 

He chose to serve in the establishment of the heavenly 
kingdom of God upon earth, rather than to rule in an 
earthly kingdom. 

45. "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered 
unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for 
many" (Mark 10:45). 

The great Apostle Paul speaks of this service of our 
Lord, as the wisdom of God in a mystery. 

5. "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of 
men, but in the power of God. 

6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are per- 
fect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes 
of this world, that come to nought: 

7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even 
the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world 
unto our glory : 

8. Which none of the princes of this world knew: for 
had they known it, they would not have crucified the 
Lord of glory" (I Cor. 2:5-8). 

At another time Paul speaks openly and without mys- 
tery of the condescending service and ignominious suf- 
fering and death of Jesus Christ in the establishment of 
His kingdom on the earth, but follows it immediately 



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with a statement of His transcendent and glorious rule 
as King in Heaven with God the Father. 

5. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 
Jesus : 

6. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not 
robbery to be equal with God : 

7. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon 
him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness 
of men: 

8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death 
of the cross. 

9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and 
given him a name which is above every name : 

10. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under 
the earth; 

11. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus 
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 
2:5-11). 



XXIII 

Preparation and Qualification of Jesus Christ to 
Begin and Establish the Kingdom of Heaven 
upon the Earth 

A. His Home Preparation. When Jesus determined to 
begin His work in the establishment of His kingdom on 
the earth, He had a good reputation. 

52. "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and 
in favour with God and man" (Luke 2: 52). 

With such a character and reputation He might, with 
great promise, have undertaken to rule over an earthly 
kingdom. 

B. His Consecration and Baptism of John the Baptist. 
Doubtless, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, He 
went down to the Jordan 

I. To meet John the Baptist, His forerunner, who had 
been preaching in the wilderness to great multitudes from 
Jerusalem, Judea and from all the region about Jordan, 
vehemently urging them to repent and be baptized for the 
remission of sins, as the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. 

By his pure life and his fearless heart-searching preach- 
ing, John the Baptist had aroused the consciences of all to 
forsake their sins and be baptized, and was thus prepar- 
ing the way in a wonderful manner for the Kingdom of 
Heaven which Jesus Himself had come into the world to 
found and establish. 

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182 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

1. "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in 
the wilderness of Judea, 

2. And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven 
is at hand. 

3. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet 
Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 

4. And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, 
and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was 
locusts and wild honey. 

5. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea 
and all the region round about Jordan, 

6. And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing 
their sins" (Matt. 3: 1-6). 

2. To be baptized of John, not because He needed re- 
pentance and remission of sins, for He had no sin, but to 
fulfill all righteousness and thus consecrate Himself to 
God His Father for the great work He had come to do in 
founding the Kingdom of Heaven in the earth. 

13. "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto 
John, to be baptized of him. 

14. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be bap- 
tized of thee, and comest thou to me? 

15. And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be 
so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteous- 
ness. Then he suffered him" (Matt. 3: 13-15). 

God the Father not only approved of his consecration, 
but manifested His approval in a marvelous manner. 

16. "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up 
straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were 
opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending 
like a dove, and lighting upon him : 

17. And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my be- 
loved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3: 16, 17). 



PREPARATION OF JESUS CHRIST 183 

This would certainly seem to be preparation and quali- 
fication enough for His work; but He must be tested by 
the most exacting trials to prove His trustworthiness. 

C. His Temptation and Victory over Satan, the Devil. 
Jesus was then led of the Spirit into the wilderness to be 
tempted of the devil, that old serpent Satan, who had 
tempted Adam and his wife in the Garden of Eden and 
brought about their downfall. 

While the tempter was the same, the persons tempted 
and the character of their temptations differed to a meas- 
ureless degree. Adam was a perfect, natural man and 
his wife a perfect, natural woman; but untried, inexpe- 
rienced, and characterless as children. They were the 
residents of the Garden of Eden, charged with the care 
of it, having all of their needs abundantly supplied with- 
out any effort of their own. 

The temptation of Adam and his wife was in one act, 
as far as Satan was concerned. The inducement was the 
fruit of a tree and its qualities in the midst of the Garden, 
against the eating of which there was a dreadful penalty 
affixed by the Lord God. Notwithstanding the attractive 
qualities of the fruit of this tree, Adam and his wife 
avoided it, because of the command of the Lord God, and 
the penalty affixed, and because they had no need of it. 
When, however, the tempter positively asserted to Eve 
that the penalty affixed by the Lord God would not be 
executed, but that they — Adam and his wife — would be 
as gods knowing good and evil after they would eat of 
the fruit of this tree, she gave heed to the tempter. 

When, therefore, she saw that the fruit of the tree was 
good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make 
them wise, her idle curiosity and false hope of gain led 



184 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

her to take of the fruit and eat of it and to give to her 
husband, who also took of it and ate it; not because they 
were hungry, but that they might be as gods, knowing 
good and evil. The penalty was then immediately ex- 
ecuted. 

4. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not 
surely die: 

5. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, 
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, 
knowing good and evil. 

6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for 
food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to 
be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, 
and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; 
and he did eat. 

7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they 
knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves to- 
gether, and made themselves aprons. 

8. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking 
in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his 
wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God 
amongst the trees of the garden" (Gen. 3 : 4-8). 

Neither Adam, nor his wife, nor both together, had 
consecrated themselves to the service of the Lord God, 
nor did they consult Him before they yielded to the 
tempter in the violation of His all-righteous and positive 
command. 

The temptation of Adam has, from the first, become 
quite common as regards the quality of the inducement 
offered, and has become exceedingly common in practice, 
since the vast majority of the human race has been led 
astray by the same tempter, Satan, and by the like com- 
monplace temptations pandering to the bodily appetites 



PREPARATION OF JESUS CHRIST 185 

and the soul's abnormal desire to be as gods, knowing 
good and evil — especially the latter. 

Jesus Christ was also a perfect natural man, but was 
well tried and experienced, and had a perfect character. 
Besides this, He had just consecrated Himself for the 
work of God the Father which He had come into the 
world to accomplish by submitting Himself to the bap- 
tism of John the Baptist, when He received the approval 
of God, His Father, by the visible descent of the Holy 
Ghost upon Him, and by the audible voice of God the 
Father from heaven, which proclaimed Him as His be- 
loved Son in whom He was well pleased. 

All of this eminently prepared Him for the great temp- 
tations He was soon to encounter, that His character as 
the Son of God and heavenly King, and His reliability for 
the work He had come to do might be thoroughly tested 
and approved. 

Jesus was exposed to three separate temptations of 
Satan, in which He was at the greatest possible disad- 
vantage, and in which the greatest possible skill was exer- 
cised by the tempter both in the plan and execution of 
the temptations, and in which the most attractive induce- 
ments were offered for compliance with the temptations. 

1. "Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilder- 
ness to be tempted of the devil. 

2. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, 
he was afterward an hungered. 

3. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou 
be the Son of God, command that these stones be made 
bread. 

4. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall 
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceed- 
eth out of the mouth of God. 



186 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

5. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and 
setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 

6. And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast 
thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels 
charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall 
bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against 
a stone. 

7. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt 
not tempt the Lord thy God. 

8. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high 
mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, 
and the glory of them : 

9. And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, 
if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 

10. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan : 
for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, 
and him only shalt thou serve. 

11. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came 
and ministered unto him" (Matt. 4:1-11). 

It is not stated in any account of these temptations that 
Jesus knew that he was being tempted of the devil. I 
am disposed to think that He did not know until about the 
final proposition of the tempter in the third temptation. 

Doubtless, however, He must have been conscious that 
He was in the hands of a superhuman being who trans- 
ported Him about at will to make the strongest impres- 
sions upon Him in favor of the temptations. 

This was the first definite encounter of Jesus Christ, 
the Seed of the woman, with that old serpent, the devil, 
and Satan, who sought to divert Him from the work He 
had been sent into the world by God the Father to do. 



XXIV 

Jesus Tempted as the Son of God and as the 
Heaven-Born King 

A. In the First Two Temptations, Jesus Was Tempted 
as the Son of God. It is exceedingly interesting and sig- 
nificant to note that in the first two of these temptations 
Jesus was approached as the Son of God by the tempter. 
Immediately after forty days and forty nights of fasting 
by Jesus in the wilderness, when He must have been ex- 
ceedingly hungry and in dire need of food, Satan, fully 
aware of this fact and knowing also that Jesus must in 
some miraculous way demonstrate that He was the Son 
of God, approached Him as such with his first temptation. 
Two all seemingly reasonable and all attractive allure- 
ments were suggested by the tempter to entrap Jesus and 
prove His downfall, namely : 

3. "If thou be the Son of God, command that these 
stones be made bread" (Matt. 4:3). 

This would demonstrate beyond a doubt that He, Jesus, 
was the Son of God and would immediately furnish the 
food for His gnawing hunger at that time. Jesus, how- 
ever, met the tempter with the immediate response, 

4. "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but 
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" 
(Matt. 4:4). 

This was a most significant answer, that bread, however 

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188 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

secured, was not sufficient to maintain the whole life of 
Man. It might serve to nourish the body, but the soul or 
spirit of Man required for its life nothing less than the 
living words that proceed out of the mouth of God. 
Moreover, this answer of Jesus was not a spontaneous, 
original statement by Him, but a quotation by Him from 
the written word of God — (Deut. 8:3). 

In the second temptation, Satan offered Jesus other 
like most reasonable and attractive allurements to ac- 
complish his purpose. He took Jesus into the holy city, 
placed Him upon a pinnacle of the temple, where all the 
devout people of Israel were accustomed to assemble and 
worship, and said unto Him, 

6. "If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it 
is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning 
thee : and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at 
any time thou dash thy foot against a stone" (Matt. 4:6). 

This would not only demonstrate to all Israel that He 
was the Son of God, but that God His Father would take 
care of His Son under all circumstances, according to the 
written promise quoted by the tempter. (Psalms 91 : 11, 

12). 

Without hesitation Jesus answered the tempter, 

7. "It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord 
thy God" (Matt. 4:7). 

In His response to this second temptation, Jesus as- 
sumed His true character as the Lord God, or at least, 
the only begotten Son of the Lord God, hence, His true 
and direct representative, and administered to the tempter, 
one of His creatures, an unmistakable rebuke that he must 



TEMPTED AS SON OF GOD AND KING 189 

cease to tempt Him, the Son of God, for He was none 
other than the Lord God. This, again, was not a hasty, 
momentary expression of Jesus, but a quotation from the 
Holy Scriptures — (Deut. 6: 16). 

B. In the Third Temptation, Jesus Was Tempted as the 
Heaven-Born King. 

In the third temptation Jesus was approached as the 
King who had come into the earth to found and de- 
velop the universal spiritual, heavenly and eternal king- 
dom of God for all men. 

Signally failing to divert Jesus, the Son of God, from 
His purpose and work, Satan turned His attention and 
effort to the human side of Jesus as a Man and a king to 
divert Him from founding and establishing the Kingdom 
of God upon earth. 

In this temptation Satan sought not only to defeat the 
purpose of the Lord God in the establishment of His king- 
dom upon the earth for all men, but also to usurp for him- 
self the place of the Lord God in the affection and wor- 
ship of men. To accomplish this daring and rebellious 
undertaking, Satan offered Jesus, the heaven-born King, 
a dazzling and almost unlimited price, which no king but 
a heaven-born and heaven-sustained king would have 
refused, namely : 

8. "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding 
high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the 
world, and the glory of them; 

9. And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, 
if thou wilt fall down and worship me" (Matt. 4:8, 9). 

It was then, if not before, that Jesus recognized the 
tempter as "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan." 



190 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Notwithstanding His continued, excruciating hunger, 
(intensified by the offer of that unparalleled sight of 
earthly food, wealth and glory), Jesus the Seed of the 
woman, the Son of God, and the heaven-born King, not 
only spurned the temptation, but forthwith dismissed 
the tempter with a final and irresistible rebuke ; which was 
not an impassionate declaration consequent to the tortur- 
ing and unrelenting suffering He had been subjected to, 
but a deliberate quotation from the written word of God 
as follows: 

20. "Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt 
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou 
serve." (Matt. 4 : 10. See Deut. 6:13; 10 : 20.) 

Jesus was victorious in all three of his temptations. 

"Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came 
and ministered unto him" (Matt. 4: 11). 

By His unparalleled consecration and trial Jesus was 
proclaimed, tested and proven to be the Son of God, the 
heaven-born and heaven-sent King, to establish the King- 
dom of Heaven upon the earth. 



XXV 

Preliminary Steps of Jesus in Preparing the Way 
for the Establishment of His Kingdom, the 
Kingdom of Heaven on the Earth 

A. Proclamation of His Mission, Preaching the King- 
dom of Heaven at Hand, and the Selection of His Dis- 
ciples. 

1. He returned to Galilee and taught in the synagogues. 

14. "And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into 
Galilee : and there went out a fame of him through all the 
region round about. 

15. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified 
of all" (Luke 4: 14, 15). 

2. In the synagogue at Nazareth, His home town, He 
read from the book of Isaiah the prophecy concerning 
Himself and the work He was sent and anointed to do. 

16. "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been 
brought up : and, as his custom was, he went into the syna- 
gogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 

17. And there was delivered unto him the book of the 
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he 
found the place where it was written, 

18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath 
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent 
me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to 
the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set 
at liberty them that are bruised, 

19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 

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192 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

20. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the 
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that 
were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 

21. And he began to say unto them, This day is this 
scripture fulfilled in your ears. 

22. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gra- 
cious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they 
said, Is not this Joseph's son?" (Luke 4: 16-22). 

3. When Jesus had heard that John the Baptist was cast 
into prison, He left Nazareth and went and dwelt in 
Capernaum on the coast of the sea of Galilee. Then He 
began to preach repentance, for the kingdom of heaven 
was at hand. He also began to select His disciples, and 
went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and 
preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. 

12. "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into 
prison, he departed into Galilee ; 

13. And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Caper- 
naum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of 
Zabulon and Nephthalim : 

14. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by 
Esaias the prophet, saying, 

15. The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, 
by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gen- 
tiles ; 

16. The people which sat in darkness saw great light; 
and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death 
light is sprung up. 

17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, 
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

18. And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two 
brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, 
casting a net into the sea : for they were fishers. 

19. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make 
you fishers of men. 



PREPARING WAY FOR KINGDOM 193 

20. And they straightway left their nets, and followed 
him. 

21. And going on from thence, he saw other two breth- 
ren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a 
ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets ; and he 
called them. 

22. And they immediately left the ship and their father, 
and followed him. 

23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their 
synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, 
and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of 
disease among the people. 

24. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they 
brought unto him all sick people that were taken with 
divers diseases and torments, and those which were 
possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, 
and those that had the palsy ; and he healed them. 

25. And there followed him great multitudes of people 
from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, 
and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan" (Matt. 
4:12-25). 

B. His Preaching and Teaching Accompanied with 
Marvelous Divine Power over Disease and Evil Spirits. 
The Sermon on the Mount. 

Jesus was most successful in His preaching and teach- 
ing that the kingdom of God was at hand, which were ac- 
companied with such marvelous divine power over disease 
and evil spirits. The multitudes that gathered about Him 
and followed Him, believed that He was a prophet or a 
teacher sent from God. Many became His disciples and 
believed in His proclamation that the kingdom of God was 
near at hand. 

It was about this time that Jesus made that matchless 
address known as The Sermon on the Mount, to His dis- 



194 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

ciples and to a great multitude made up of all classes from 
all parts of Palestine, in which address He outlined many 
of the principles of the kingdom of heaven. This address 
began with the beatitudes. 

i. "And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a moun- 
tain : and when he was set, his disciples came unto him : 

2. And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 

3. Blessed are the poor in spirit : for their's is the king- 
dom of heaven. 

4. Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be com- 
forted. 

5. Blessed are the meek : for they shall inherit the earth. 

6. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after 
righteousness : for they shall be filled. 

7. Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain mercy. 

8. Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see God. 

9. Blessed are the peacemakers : for they shall be called 
the children of God. 

10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteous- 
ness' sake: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. 

n. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and 
persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you 
falsely, for my sake. 

12. Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your 
reward in heaven : for so persecuted they the prophets 
which were before you" (Matt. 5 : 1-12). 

It ended with the very significant words of caution : 

15. "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in 
sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 

16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather 
grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 

17. Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; 
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 

18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither 
can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 



PREPARING WAY FOR KINGDOM 195 

19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is 
hewn down, and cast into the fire. 

20. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 

21. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall 
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the 
will of my Father which is in heaven. 

22. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, 
have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name 
have cast out devils? and in thy name done many 
wonderful works? 

23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew 
you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 

24. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, 
and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which 
built his house upon a rock : 

25. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and 
the winds blew, and beat upon the house ; and it fell not : 
for it was founded upon a rock. 

26. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, 
and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, 
which built his house upon the sand : 

27. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and 
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: 
and great was the fall of it. 

28. And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these 
sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: 

29. For he taught them as one having authority, and not 
as the scribes" (Matt. 7: 15-29). 



XXVI 

First Definite Steps of Jesus in the Establishment 
of His Kingdom on the Earth 

Accordingly, the time had come for Jesus to take the 
first definite steps in the actual formation of the kingdom 
of heaven on the earth. 

A. Ail-Night Prayer to God and Selection of His 
Twelve Apostles. 

Although this kingdom was to be established by men, 
extended by men and be made up of men, Jesus consulted 
with no man to ascertain what would be the right thing to 
do in the beginning of such an important undertaking, for 
no man could help Him. 

He went up into a mountain apart to pray and con- 
tinued all night in prayer to God, His Father. The next 
day He chose the men from His disciples through whom 
He was to begin and extend the kingdom of heaven upon 
the earth. 

12. "And it came to pass in those days, that he went out 
into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer 
to God. 

13. And when it was day, he called unto him his dis- 
ciples : and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named 
apostles ; 

14. Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew 
his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 

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ESTABLISHMENT OF KINGDOM 197 

15. Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, 
and Simon called Zelotes, 

16. And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, 
which also was the traitor" (Luke 6: 12-16). 

In the formation of this unparalleled band of His truly 
royal and loyal representatives, He selected none from 
the palaces of kings or of other royal families ; nor from 
the dwellings of the rich and powerful in the large cities; 
nor yet from the instructors or students of the schools 
of higher learning; but from the homes of the common 
people in the small towns and villages of Galilee. The 
first four, and most noted of them, were fishermen by oc- 
cupation. 

Doubtless, Jesus selected these men far from the 
centers of earthly power and influence, that their minds 
and hearts would not be preoccupied with false notions of 
government, false ideas of business and social relations 
and with false learning, but would be free to receive and 
adopt His instruction relative to the formation and exten- 
sion of the kingdom of heaven on the earth, for which 
they were chosen. 

These twelve wonderful, though common, men to- 
gether embraced within themselves the qualities and char- 
acteristics, in the rough, necessary to the founding and 
first efforts in the extension of the kingdom of heaven on 
the earth, Judas Iscariot excepted. Under the continuous 
instructions and personal relations with Jesus, the Son of 
God and heaven-sent King, they were prepared to ac- 
complish what was required of them. 

B. Cultivating the Most Friendly and Intimate Rela- 
tionship zvith His Apostles and Affording Them the Most. 



198 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Essential Knowledge of Himself and the Kingdom. 
While Jesus was the Lord and Master of these, His chosen 
apostles, He treated them as His friends and served them 
even to the washing of their feet, that they might do the 
same for their fellow men. He also afforded them lib- 
erty in the exercise of their peculiar characteristics, pitied 
them in the misuse of them, and was grieved at the aggra- 
vated abuse of them. 

He indulged Peter in his forwardness of speech; John 
in reclining upon His breast ; Thomas in his doubting ex- 
pressions ; and Judas Iscariot in his scrupulous regard for 
the treasury; but so tenderly and affectionately rebuked 
the flagrant abuse of the same, as to prevent repetitions 
of the offenses and gain for Himself the esteem and love 
of the offenders. 

First: 

33. "Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men 
shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be 
offended. 

34. Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That 
this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me 
thrice. 

35. Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, 
yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the dis- 
ciples" (Matt. 26:33-35). 

69. "Now Peter sat without in the palace : and a damsel 
came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of 
Galilee. 

70. But he denied before them all, saying, I know not 
what thou sayest. 

71. And when he was gone out into the porch, another 
maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This 
fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. 

J2. And again he denied with an oath, I do not know 
the man. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF KINGDOM .199 

73. And after a while came unto him they that stood 
by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; 
for thy speech betrayeth thee. 

74. Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know 
not the man. And immediately the cock crew. 

75. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which 
said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me 
thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly" (Matt. 
26:69-75). 

15. "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon 
Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than 
these ? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord ; thou knowest that 
I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 

16. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son 
of Jonas, lovest thou me ? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord ; 
thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed 
my sheep. 

17. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of 
Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he 
said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he 
said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou know- 
est that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my 
sheep" (John 21 : 15-17). 

Second: 

20. "Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children 
with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain 
thing of him. 

21. And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith 
unto him, Grant that these my two sons (James and 
John) may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other 
on the left, in thy kingdom. 

22. But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye 
ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, 
and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized 
with ? They say unto him, We are able. 

23. And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of 
my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am 
baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my 



200 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for 
whom it is prepared of my Father. 

24. And when the ten heard it, they were moved with 
indignation against the two brethren. 

25. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know 
that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over 
them, and they that are great exercise authority upon 
them. 

26. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever 
will be great among you, let him be your minister ; 

27. And whosoever will be chief among you, let him 
be your servant : 

28. Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered 
unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for 
many" (Matt. 20:20-28). 

Third: 

24. "But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, 
was not with them when Jesus came. 

25. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We 
have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I 
shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my 
fingers into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand 
into his side, I will not believe. 

26. And after eight days again his disciples were within, 
and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors 
being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be 
unto you. 

27. Then said he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, 
and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and 
thrust it into my side : and be not faithless, but believing. 

28. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord 
and my God. 

29. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast 
seen me, thou hast believed : blessed are they that have 
not seen, and yet have believed" (John 20: 24-29). 

Fourth: 

i.- "Then Jesus six days before the passover came to 



ESTABLISHMENT OF KINGDOM 201 

Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom 
he raised from the dead. 

2. There they made him a supper ; and Martha served : 
but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with 
him. 

3. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, 
very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his 
feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the 
odour of the ointment. 

4. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, 
Simon's son, which should betray him, 

5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred 
pence, and given to the poor? 

6. This he said, not that he cared for the poor ; but be- 
cause he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was 
put therein. 

7. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of 
my burying hath she kept this. 

8. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye 
have not always" (John 12: 1-8). 



XXVII 

Jesus Gave Power to These Twelve Chosen Apos- 
tles and Sent Them with Full Commission to 
Preach to the House of Israel That the King- 
dom of Heaven Was at Hand 

A. The Twelve Apostles Commissioned and Sent to the 
House of Israel by Jesus. Having called His twelve apos- 
tles together, Jesus gave them miraculous power for their 
work, then sent them forth to preach that the kingdom of 
heaven is at hand. 

In His commission to them He gave explicit instruc- 
tions where to go, to whom to go, and how to go; what 
to do, and how to do it ; what they would meet, and how 
to meet it. 

Furthermore, He assured them that when they should 
be brought before governors and kings for their faithful 
preaching they should not be afraid nor even take thought 
of how or what they were to speak, for at the very hour 
of their trial, it would be given to them what to speak by 
the Spirit of their Father, God. 

i. "And when he had called unto him his twelve dis- 
ciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast 
them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all 
manner of disease. 

2. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these ; The 
first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother ; 
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 

3. Philip, and Bartholomew ; Thomas, and Matthew the 
publican ; James, the son of Alphseus, and Lebbseus, whose 
surname was Thaddseus; 

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JESUS GIVES POWER TO APOSTLES 203 

4. Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also 
betrayed him. 

5. These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them, 
saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any 
city of the Samaritans enter ye not : 

6. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

7. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven 
is at hand. 

8. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast 
out devils ; freely ye have received, freely give. 

9. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your 
purses, 

10. Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, 
neither shoes, nor yet staves : for the workman is worthy 
of his meat. 

n. And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, 
enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide until ye go 
thence. 

12. And when ye come into an house, salute it. 

13. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come 
upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to 
you. 

14. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your 
words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake 
off the dust of your feet. 

15. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable 
for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judg- 
ment, than for that city. 

16. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of 
wolves : be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as 
doves. 

17. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to 
the councils, and they will scourge you in their syna- 
gogues ; 

18. And ye shall be brought before governors and kings 
for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gen- 
tiles. 

19. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how 



204 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that 
same hour what ye shall speak. 

20. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your 
Father which speaketh in you. 

21. And the brother shall deliver the brother to death, 
and the father the child: and the children shall rise up 
against their parents, and cause them to be put to 
death. 

22. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's 
sake : but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. 

23. But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into 
another ; for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone 
over the cities of Israel, till the Son of Man be come. 

24. The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant 
above his lord. 

25. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, 
and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master 
of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call 
them of his household ? 

26. Fear them not therefore : for there is nothing cov- 
ered, that shall not be revealed ; and hid, that shall not be 
known. 

27. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light : 
and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the 
housetops. 

28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not 
able to kill the soul : but rather fear him which is able to 
destroy both soul and body in hell. 

29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one 
of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 

30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 

31. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than 
many sparrows. 

32. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, 
him will I confess also before my Father which is in 
heaven. 

33. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will 
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34. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I 
came not to send peace, but a sword. 

35. For I am come to set a man at variance against his 
father, and the daughter against her mother, and the 
daughter in law against her mother-in-law. 

36. And a man's foes shall be they of his own house- 
hold. 

37. He that loveth father or mother more than me is 
not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter 
more than me is not worthy of me. 

38. And he that taketh not his cross, and f olloweth after 
me, is not worthy of me. 

39. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that 
loseth his life for my sake shall find it. 

40. He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that 
receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. 

41. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet 
shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he that receiveth a 
righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall re- 
ceive a righteous man's reward. 

42. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these 
little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a dis- 
ciple, verily, I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his 
reward" (Matt. 10: 1-42). 

1. "And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of 
commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to 
teach and to preach in their cities" (Matt. 11 : 1). 

B. Other Seventy Disciples Sent Before Him by Jesus. 
The demand for the visitation of the cities of Israel by 
Jesus was so great and the end to be accomplished by His 
teaching and preaching was so essential and pressing, that 
He commissioned other seventy disciples and sent them 
before him into those cities to prepare the way for His 
coming. 

1. "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy 



206 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

also, and sent them two and two before his face into every 
city and place, whither he himself would come. 

2. Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is 
great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the 
Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers 
into his harvest. 

3. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs 
among wolves. 

4. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes : and salute 
no man by the way. 

5. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace 
be to this house. 

6. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall 
rest upon it : if not, it shall turn to you again. 

7. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking 
such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of 
his hire. Go not from house to house. 

8. And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive 
you, eat such things as are set before you : 

9. And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, 
The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you" (Luke 
10:1-9). 

17. "And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, 
Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy 
name. 

18. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning 
fall from heaven. 

19. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents 
and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy : and 
nothing shall by any means hurt you. 

20. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits 
are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your 
names are written in heaven. 

21. In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I 
thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou 
hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast 
revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it 
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JESUS GIVES POWER TO APOSTLES 207 

22. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and 
no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father ; and who 
the Father is, but the Son and he to whom the Son will 
reveal him. 

23. And he turned him unto his disciples, and said 
privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye 
see: 

24. For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have 
desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen 
them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have 
not heard them" (Luke 10: 17-24). 



XXVIII 

Some of the Notable Things by Which Jesus Quali- 
fied His Twelve Apostles to Begin and Extend 
His Kingdom on the Earth 

There is space here to make only the merest mention 
of all that Jesus afforded His twelve chosen disciples and 
apostles by His marvelous instruction, example, and 
works, to qualify them for the great work they were to 
do. He kept Himself in close touch with these twelve 
apostles who had been with Him from the beginning of 
His ministry. They were His chosen ministers to begin 
and extend His kingdom on the earth. 

While He sent them out by twos and otherwise, He 
never allowed Himself to be absent from all of them for 
any considerable time. All of them or part of them were 
ever with Him. They were with Him on the sea of 
Galilee in the calm and in the storm. They traveled and 
rested with Him in his journeys. They ate, drank and 
slept with Him. They were with Him in the mountain 
and in the valley ; in the palace and in the humble home ; 
in the multitude and in the quiet circle ; in the city, town, 
and in the rural district ; in the temple at Jerusalem and in 
the synagogues everywhere. They were with Him day 
by day, when He exercised His marvelous, miraculous 
power and when He needed their tender sympathy. 
Three of them were present with Him on the mountain 
when He was transfigured before them. The same three 
were with Him in the Garden of Gethsemane when, in 

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JESUS QUALIFIED HIS APOSTLES 209 

His sufferings, He sweat as it were, great drops of blood. 
All of them were with Him at the last passover feast at 
Jerusalem. Eleven of them were present when Jesus 
instituted the Lord's supper. Eleven of them went out 
that night with Him over the brook Kedron to the Garden 
of Gethsemane. All of them were present when He was 
betrayed and arrested by the Roman soldiers. All or part 
of them witnessed His trial, crucifixion and burial. 
Eleven of them at various times were present with Him 
after His resurrection from the dead; and eleven were 
with Him on the Mount of Olives when He ascended up 
to heaven. 

Because of their most intimate and familiar personal 
relationship with Jesus, all of His apostles could have 
said with John, 

1. "That which was from the beginning, which we 
have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we 
have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the 
Word of life; 

2. (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, 
and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, 
which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 

3. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto 
you, that ye also may have fellowship with us : and truly 
our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus 
Christ" (I John 1:1-3). 

Moreover, because of their constant presence with 
Jesus, and because of their very familiar personal rela- 
tionship with Him, these apostles were most privileged 
witnesses of all that He, the professed Son of God, had 
done for all classes and under all circumstances, that they 
might know Him, and believe on Him and testify that He 
was the Son of God. 



210 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

For example, they were accustomed to His dealings 
with the scribes, Pharisees and doctors who came to Him 
with their puzzling questions and answers to entrap and 
entangle Him, and how effectually they were repulsed by 
His superhuman knowledge ; to His dealings with the 
suffering and distressed who came to Him for help, and 
how marvelously they were relieved by His divine power ; 
to His dealings with all who came to Him to know the 
way of life, and how graciously with the authority of His 
Father, God, He taught them; and to His dealings with 
little children, who were brought to Him by their mothers 
for His benediction, and how He took them in His arms 
and blessed them, and said, "Suffer the little children to 
come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the 
Kingdom of God." 

30. "And many other signs truly did Jesus in the pres- 
ence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 

31. But these are written, that ye might believe that 
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye 
might have life through his name" (John 20: 30, 31). 



XXIX 

The Kingdom of God Illustrated in Parables by 
Jesus, and Special Promises to His Apostles 
Concerning the Kingdom 

Jesus was most intensely absorbed with the establish- 
ment of the Kingdom of God on the earth. He not only 
preached and taught wherever He went that this king- 
dom was at hand, but sent out His twelve chosen disciples 
and other seventy disciples with explicit instructions to 
do the same. That was the one special message that He 
and they proclaimed at all times and in all places. The 
minds of the people everywhere were absorbed in earthly 
matters, including their governments, in those things 
which pertain to their temporal and physical needs. 

Besides this barrier, the multitudes which thronged 
about Him were largely made up of the common people 
and uneducated, who would not be able to understand 
abstract teaching, or even the more simple preaching. 
Accordingly, almost everywhere, and on almost all occa- 
sions, Jesus made use of the best and simplest parables to 
illustrate the principles, the characteristics and the work- 
ings of the Kingdom of God. 

And in any case when His disciples failed to understand 
the lesson of the parable, He explained it to them fully 
that there might be no doubt in their minds about the 
matters of the Kingdom of God, for which they were 
chosen as His representatives to found and extend on the 
earth. 

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212 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Many of these parables, as presented by Him, are to 
be found in the four Gospels, and are exceedingly in- 
teresting and explicit in what they were used to illustrate. 
They should be read and reread in the connection where 
they are used, by all who are interested in the Kingdom 
of God, and its extension on the earth. 

There is no space here to copy any of them and it is not 
necessary that there should be, as it would be more inter- 
esting and instructive to read them in their historical set- 
tings. 

In this connection it may be well to consider several 
most notable instances in the life of Jesus with His dis- 
ciples, in which He imparted to them in a most significant 
manner very important and never to be forgotten instruc- 
tion relative to His kingdom and the part they were to 
have in it. 

First: 

13. "When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea 
Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men 
say that I the Son of man am ? 

14. And they said, Some say that thou art John the 
Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the 
prophets. 

15. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 

16. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the 
Christ, the Son of the living God. 

17. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art 
thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not re- 
vealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 

18. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, 
and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates 
of hell shall not prevail against it. 

19. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom 
of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth 



THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN PARABLES 213 

shall be bound in heaven : and whatsoever thou shalt loose 
on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 

20. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell 
no man that he was Jesus the Christ. 

21. From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his 
disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer 
many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, 
and be killed, and be raised again the third day" (Matt. 
16: 13-21). 

Second: 

2J. "Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, 
we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we 
have therefore ? 

28. And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, 
That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration 
when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory, 
ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel. 

29. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or 
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or 
children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an 
hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life. 

30. But many that are first shall be last; and the last 
shall be first" (Matt. 19:27-30). 

Third: 

24. "And there was also a strife among them, which 
of them should be accounted the greatest. 

25. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles 
exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise 
authority upon them are called benefactors. 

26. But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among 
you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he 
that doth serve. 

2J. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he 
that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am 
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28. Ye are they which have continued with me in my 
temptations. 

29. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father 
hath appointed unto me ; 

30. That ye may eat and drink at my table in my king- 
dom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of 
Israel" (Luke 22 : 24-30). 

Fourth: 

3. "To whom also he shewed himself alive after his 
passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them 
forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the 
kingdom of God : 

4. And, being assembled together with them, com- 
manded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, 
but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, 
ye have heard of me. 

5. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be 
baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence" 
(Acts 1:3-5). 



XXX 

The Gift of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles of 
Jesus Would Be of Inestimable Value to Them 
in Three Most Important Ways 

First: 

15. "If ye love me, keep my commandments. 

16. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you 
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever ; 

17. Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot 
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: 
but ye know him ; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be 
in you. 

18. I will not leave you comfortless : I will come to you. 

19. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more ; 
but ye see me : because I live, ye shall live also. 

20. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, 
and ye in me, and I in you" (John 14: 15-20). 

Second: 

25. "These things have I spoken unto you, being yet 
present with you. 

26. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom 
the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all 
things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatso- 
ever I have said unto you" (John 14: 25, 26). 

Third: 

26. "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will 
send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, 
which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me : 

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27. And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have 
been with me from the beginning" (John 15:26, 2j). 

Again, the gift of the Holy Spirit promised to His apos- 
tles by Jesus was absolutely necessary to them in three 
most essential particulars, to enable them to be His wit- 
nesses and to extend His kingdom on the earth. 

1. He would convince of sin, righteousness, and judg- 
ment. 

5. "But now I go my way to him that sent me ; and none 
of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? 

6. But because I have said these things unto you, sor- 
row hath filled your heart. 

7. Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient 
for you that I go away : for if I go not away, the Com- 
forter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send 
him unto you. 

8. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of 
sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 

9. Of sin, because they believe not on me; 

10. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and 
ye see me no more; 

11. Of judgment, because the prince of this world is 
judged" (John 16:5-11). 

2. He would guide them into all truth, show them 
things to come and would glorify Jesus Christ. 

12. "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye 
cannot bear them now. 

13. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he 
will guide you into all truth; for he shall not speak of 
himself ; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak : 
and he will shew you things to come. 

14. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, 
and shall shew it unto you. 

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said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto 
you" (John 16: 12-15). 

3. He would afford them all needful power, that they 
might be witnesses unto Jesus Christ everywhere. 

6. "When they therefore were come together, they 
asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore 
again the kingdom to Israel? 

7. And he said unto them, It is not for you to know 
the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in 
his own power. 

8. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost 
is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me 
both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and 
unto the uttermost part of the earth. 

9. And when he had spoken these things, while they be- 
held, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of 
their sight" (Acts 1:6-9). 



XXXI 

The Apostles Returned to Jerusalem and Contin- 
ued with One Accord in Prayer. The Holy 
Ghost Was Poured Out Upon Them. They 
Were Endued with Power, Accompanied with 
Marvelous Results 

After Jesus ascended into heaven from His apostles on 
the Mount of Olives, they returned to Jerusalem to wait 
for the promise of the Father, as Jesus had commanded 
them. They went up into an upper room where most of 
the apostles abode. There they continued with one ac- 
cord in prayer and supplication with the women, and 
Mary the mother of Jesus, and with the brethren. 

A. The Choosing of Matthias. In one of these meet- 
ings when there were present one hundred and twenty, 
Peter addressed them and assured them that another must 
be chosen as an apostle to fill the place vacated by Judas 
Iscariot. 

15. "And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of 
the disciples, and said, (the number of names together 
were about an hundred and twenty,) 

16. Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have 
been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of 
David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide 
to them that took Jesus. 

17. For he was numbered with us, and had obtained 
part of this ministry. . . . 

20. For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habi- 

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tation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his 
bishoprick let another take. 

21. Wherefore of these men which have companied 
with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out 
among us, 

22. Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same 
day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained 
to be a witness with us of his resurrection. 

23. And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, 
who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. 

24. And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which 
knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two 
thou hast chosen, 

25. That he may take part of this ministry and apostle- 
ship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he 
might go to his own place. 

26. And they gave forth their lots ; and the lot fell upon 
Matthias ; and he was numbered with the eleven apos- 
tles" (Acts 1 : 15-17; 20-26). 

B. Pentecost. The Holy Ghost was then poured out 
upon the apostles of Jesus and they were endued with 
great power which was accompanied with marvelous 
beneficial results. 

1. "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, 
they were all with one accord in one place. 

2. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of 
a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where 
they were sitting. 

3. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as 
of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 

4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and 
began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave 
them utterance. 

5. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout 
men, out of every nation under heaven. 

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came together, and were confounded, because that every 
man heard them speak in his own language. 

7. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one 
to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Gali- 
laeans ? 

8. And how hear we every man in our own tongue, 
wherein we were born? 

9. Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers 
in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in 
Pontus, and Asia, 

10. Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts 
of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and 
proselytes, 

11. Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our 
tongues the wonderful works of God. 

12. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, say- 
ing one to another, What meaneth this? 

13. Others mocking said, These men are full of new 
wine" (Acts 2: 1-13). 

This was the answer to the promise and command of 
Jesus to His Apostles on the Mount of Olives just before 
His ascension. 

49. "And, behold, I send the promise of my Father 
upon you : but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye 
be endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49). 

Since Jesus had departed from His apostles the endue- 
ment of power as bestowed upon them at this time was 
absolutely necessary to qualify them for the work they 
were commanded to do. 

The wonderful manner in which this enduement of 
power was bestowed upon the apostles afforded them 
undoubted evidence that it was sent from God. Assured 
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of them, and by the Spirit within them, that they were 
commissioned anew by the Holy Ghost to proclaim the 
Gospel of the Kingdom of God, they began to speak with 
other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 

When the great multitude of devout men from every 
nation in the then known world, heard the apostles who 
were all Galileans, speak to them in their own tongues, 
in the languages wherein they were born, they were all 
amazed and said one to another, "What meaneth this?" 

Pentecost was the very opposite from Babel. At 
Babel God was left out of all their plans and He came 
down from heaven and confounded their language so that 
they could not understand each other. Babel was the be- 
ginning of the dividing of men into different languages 
and nations. At Pentecost God was in all the plans of the 
apostles of Jesus relative to the Kingdom of God on the 
earth. Accordingly He sent the Holy Ghost to enable 
men from all countries and of all languages to understand 
them and each other clearly. Pentecost was the beginning 
of the Kingdom of God in which eventually there would 
be but one language. 

C. Peter Addressed the Multitude. Then Peter stand- 
ing with the other eleven apostles and under the direction 
of the Holy Ghost addressed the multitude as follows : 

14. "But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his 
voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye 
that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and 
hearken to my words : 

15. For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it 
is but the third hour of the day. 

16. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet 
Joel; 

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God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your 
sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young 
men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream 
dreams : 

1 8. And on my servants and on my hand maidens I 
will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall 
prophesy : 

19. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs 
in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of 
smoke : 

20. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon 
into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord 
come: 

21. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call 
on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 

22. Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Naz- 
areth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and 
wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of 
you, as ye yourselves also know : 

23. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel 
and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked 
hands have crucified and slain : 

24. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains 
of death: because it was not possible that he should be 
holden of it. 

25. For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the 
Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, 
that I should not be moved : 

26. Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was 
glad ; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope : 

27. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither 
wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 

28. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; 
thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 

29. Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you 
of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, 
and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. 

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had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his 
loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to 
sit on his throne ; 

31. He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of 
Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh 
did see corruption. 

32. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are 
witnesses. 

33. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, 
and having received of the Father the promise of the 
Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see 
and hear. 

34. For David is not ascended into the heavens : but he 
saith himself, the Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my 
right hand, 

35. Until I make thy foes thy footstool. 

36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assur- 
edly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have 
crucified, both Lord and Christ" (Acts 2: 14-36). 

In this bold and heart-searching address Peter, with a 
single expression, silenced the mocking ones who asserted 
that the apostles were full of new wine, when he said, 
"These are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but 
the third hour of the day," which would have been 
directly contrary to a well-established and well-known 
custom at that time of the day. 

After this he gave a clear and definite answer to the 
inquiry, "What meaneth this?" by the devout men that 
most likely formed much of the greater part of the multi- 
tude. "This is that which was spoken by the prophet 
Joel," — "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will 
pour out my Spirit upon all flesh" (Joel 2:28-32). 

Then with boldness he declared that God had raised up 
Jesus whom they had crucified and slain. In proof of this 



224 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

he referred them to the patriarch David, who, "being a 
prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath 
to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, 
he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne," foretold the 
resurrection of Christ. Then he declared with an expres- 
sion of absolute certainty, "This Jesus hath God raised 
up whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by 
the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the 
Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth 
this which ye now see and hear." 

And again referred to another prophecy of David con- 
cerning Jesus, namely, "The Lord saith unto my Lord, 
Sit thou on my right hand." 

Peter concluded his address with this all-inclusive and 
most significant statement: "Therefore let all the house 
of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same 
Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." 
From this statement we get the term "The Lord Jesus 
Christ." 

It is noteworthy that Peter in this short address de- 
clared for himself and for the other eleven apostles, the 
representatives of the kingdom of God upon the earth, 
i. That Jesus of Nazareth was then seated on the throne 
of David; 2. on the right hand of God; and 3. made Lord 
and Christ by God. 

Therefore, it was Jesus as King on the throne of David, 
on the right hand of God and as Lord and Christ, that had 
received the Holy Ghost from the Father and had shed 
forth that which they had seen and heard. 

The immediate effect of this address upon the multi- 
tude is clearly expressed in verse thirty-seven, as follows ; 

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their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apos- 
tles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?" (Acts 2: 37). 

D. Peter's Answer to the Question, "Men and Brethren, 
What Shall We do?" Its Immediate and Amazing Re- 
sults. In response to the pressing question of the con- 
victed multitude, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" 
Peter, for himself and the other apostles, and under the 
direction of the Holy Ghost, began at once to publish the 
Gospel of the Kingdom of God with great earnestness and 
tenderness, and told them plainly and definitely what they 
must do. 

The message of Peter was gladly received and promptly 
complied with by thousands of the multitude from every 
country under heaven, and followed with marvelous and 
glorious results, namely: 

38. "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be bap- 
tized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for 
the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the 
Holy Ghost. 

39. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, 
and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our 
God shall call. 

40. And with many other words did he testify and ex- 
hort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward genera- 
tion. 

41. Then they that gladly received his word were bap- 
tized : and the same day there were added unto them about 
three thousand souls. 

42. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doc- 
trine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in 
prayers. 

43. And fear came upon every soul: and many won- 
ders and signs were done by the apostles. 

44. And all that believed were together, and had all 
things common; 



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45. And sold their possessions and goods, and parted 
them to all men, as every man had need. 

46. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the 
temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat 
their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, 

47. Praising God, and having favour with all the people. 
And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be 
saved" (Acts 2: 38-47). 

E. The Manifest Beginning of the Kingdom of God 
Upon the Earth. Pentecost, including all the amazing 
events of the day, beginning with "the one accord in one 
place" and concluding with the marvelous ingathering of 
thousands of souls into the Kingdom, was the first formal 
or definite expression of the beginning of the Kingdom of 
God on the earth. 

All was brought about by the Holy Ghost shed abroad 
by Jesus Christ on His throne at the right hand of God, 
as promised by Him. 

What was so wonderfully begun that day was contin- 
ued by the apostles under the direction of the Holy Ghost. 
All continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fel- 
lowship and in prayers, and fear came upon every soul. 
They continued daily with one accord in the temple, 
praising God and having favor with all the people. 

Accordingly, the Lord Jesus Himself added to the 
Church (the Kingdom) daily such as should be saved. 



XXXII 

Belief and Testimony of the Apostles that Jesus 
Was at the Right Hand of God and That They 
Were Endued with Power by the Holy Ghost 
Sent upon Them by the Lord Jesus Christ 

From what they had heard and experienced, the apos- 
tles were absolutely certain that Jesus was on His throne 
at the right hand of God the Father and that He had sent 
the Holy Ghost according to His promise to accomplish 
all that was done. 

Moreover, they were convinced beyond a doubt that 
Jesus had also bestowed upon them, His representatives, 
the Holy Ghost to afford them all the power, wisdom and 
protection needed for the extension of the Kingdom of 
God to the uttermost part of the earth. The following 
quotations will serve as proofs of the foregoing state- 
ment: 

31. "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken 
where they were assembled together; and they were all 
filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of 
God with boldness. 

32. And the multitude of them that believed were of 
one heart and of one soul ; neither said any of them that 
ought of the things which he possessed was his own ; but 
they had all things common. 

33. And with great power gave the apostles witness of 
the resurrection of the Lord Jesus : and great grace was 
upon them all" (Acts 4: 31-33). 

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30. "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom 
ye slew and hanged on a tree. 

31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a 
Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and 
forgiveness of sins. 

32. And we are his witnesses of these things ; and so is 
also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that 
obey him" (Acts 5 : 30-32). 

To encourage and stimulate the Kingdom of God on 
the earth, then advancing rapidly against much opposition 
and persecution, Stephen, the first martyr, just before he 
was stoned to death, was chosen to give the most direct 
and positive personal testimony as to the place which 
Jesus occupied with God the Father in heaven. 

"But he, (Stephen) being full of the Holy Ghost, 
looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of 
God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 

And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the 
Son of man standing on the right hand of God" (Acts 
7:55, 56). 

And last, Jesus manifested Himself unto Paul, who 
was to be the chief of His apostles, in a very direct and 
almost familiar manner. In this manifestation Paul was 
not only permitted to see Jesus and hear His voice, but 
to talk with Him. Thus he was assured beyond a 
doubt, not only that Jesus was risen from the dead and 
was at the right hand of God the Father, as he had heard 
Stephen declare, but that He was beyond measure con- 
cerned for the extension of His Kingdom on the earth, 
and that he wanted Paul to know this in words from His 
own mouth. 

The two following statements of himself show how 



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Paul (Saul) was met by Jesus and how the will of God 
was made known to him by Ananias. Also how Paul was 
caught up to the third heaven and heard unspeakable 
words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 

6. "And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, 
and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly 
there shone from heaven a great light around about me. 

7. And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying 
unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 

8. And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said 
unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. 

9. And they that were with me saw indeed the light, 
and were afraid ; but they heard not the voice of him that 
spake to me. 

10. And I said, What shall I do, Lord ? . And the Lord 
said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it 
shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for 
thee to do. 

11. And when I could not see for the glory of that light, 
being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came 
into Damascus. 

12. And one Ananias, a devout man according to the 
law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt 
there, 

13. Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother 
Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up 
upon him. 

14. And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen 
thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just 
One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. 

15. For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what 
thou hast seen and heard. 

16. And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, 
and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. 

17. And it came to pass, that, when I was come again 
to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in 
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1 8. And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get 
thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive 
thy testimony concerning me. 

19. And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and 
beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee : 

20. And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was 
shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his 
death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. 

21. And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee 
far hence unto the Gentiles" (Acts 22 : 6-21). 

1. "It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will 
come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 

2. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, 
(whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the 
body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ; ) such an one caught up 
to the third heaven. 

3. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out 
of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 

4. How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard 
unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to 
utter. 

5. Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not 
glory, but in mine infirmities. 

6. For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a 
fool ; for I will say the truth : but now I forbear, lest any 
man should think of me above that which he seeth me to 
be, or that he heareth of me. 

7. And lest I should be exalted above measure through 
the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a 
thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, 
lest I should be exalted above measure" (II Cor. 12 : 1-7). 



XXXIII 

All-Important, Inclusive, and Conclusive State- 
ments of the Apostles Paul and John, to Whom 
Were Given by Far the Greater Revelations 
Concerning Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of 
God, after His Ascension to God the Father in 
Heaven 

These statements not only confirm all the Gospel de- 
clarations of God's love, of Christ's death, and of sure 
salvation for all that would believe on His name, but also 
afford clear and certain knowledge, 

i. Of the exalted and glorious relationship of Jesus on 
the throne with God the Father. 

2. Of the exalted and glorious position of Jesus above 
all creatures, whether on earth or in heaven, and 

3. Of the glorious and blessed relation of all the saved 
ones with the heavenly host before the throne of God and 
with Jesus the Lamb of God, in the midst of the throne, as 
follows : 

A. Paul to the Ephesians: 

1. "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, 
to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in 
Christ Jesus : 

2. Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, 
and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 

3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in 
heavenly places in Christ : 

4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the 

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foundation of the world, that we should be holy and with- 
out blame before him in love : 

5. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of chil- 
dren by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good 
pleasure of his will, 

6. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he 
hath made us accepted in the beloved. 

7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the 
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 

8. Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all. wisdom 
and prudence ; 

9. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, 
according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in 
himself : 

10. That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he 
might gather together in one all things in Christ, both 
which are in heaven, and which are on earth ; even in him : 

11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being 
predestinated according to the purpose of him who work- 
eth all things after the counsel of his own will : 

12. That we should be to the praise of his glory, who 
first trusted in Christ. 

13. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the 
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also 
after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit 
of promise, 

14. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the 
redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise 
of his glory. 

15. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the 
Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 

16. Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention 
of you in my prayers ; 

17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father 
of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and 
revelation in the knowledge of him: 

18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened ; 
that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and 



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what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the 
saints, 

19. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to 
us- ward who believe, according to the working of his 
mighty power, 

20. Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him 
from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the 
heavenly places, 

21. Far above all principality, and power, and might, 
and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in 
this world, but also in that which is to come : 

22. And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him 
to be the head over all things to the church, 

23. Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all 
in all" (Eph. 1 : 1-23). 

B. Paul to the Philippians: 

5. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 
Jesus : 

6. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not 
robbery to be equal with God: 

7. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon 
him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness 
of men : 

8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death 
of the cross. 

9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and 
given him a name which is above every name : 

10. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under 
the earth; 

n. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus 
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 
2:5-11). 

C. Paul to the Colossians: 

1. "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, 
and Timotheus our brother, 



234 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

2. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which 
are at Colosse : Grace be unto you, and peace, from God 
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 

3. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, praying always for you. . . . 

10. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all 
pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increas- 
ing in the knowledge of God; 

11. Strengthened with all might, according to his glori- 
ous power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy- 
fulness ; 

12. Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us 
meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in 
light : 

13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, 
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son : 

14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, 
even the forgiveness of sins : 

15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn 
of every creature : 

16. For by him were all things created, that are in 
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, 
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, 
or powers : all things were created by him, and for him : 

17. And he is before all things, and by him all things 
consist. 

18. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is 
the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all 
things he might have the preeminence. 

19. For it pleased the Father that in him should all 
fulness dwell; 

20. And, having made peace through the blood of his 
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself ; by him, 
I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 

21. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies 
in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 

22. In the body of his flesh through death, to present 
you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight : 



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23. If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and 
be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye 
have heard, and which was preached to every creature 
which is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a min- 
ister" (Col. 1:1-3; 10-23). 

D. The Apostle John in Revelation: 

9. "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which 
no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and 
people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before 
the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their 
hands ; 

10. And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our 
God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. 

11. And all the angels stood round about the throne, 
and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before 
the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 

12. Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, 
and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be 
unto our God for ever and ever, Amen. 

13. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, 
What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and 
whence came they ? 

14. And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he 
said to me, These are they which came out of great tribu- 
lation, and have washed their robes, and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb. 

15. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and 
serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth 
on the throne shall dwell among them. 

16. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more ; 
neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 

17. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne 
shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains 
of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes" (Rev. 7:9-17). 

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236 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

the promised salvation by the Lord God for sinful Man 
and to the study of the Kingdom of God for the believing 
man. It might be said that I had devoted too much time 
and space to the study of these particular subjects; but I 
think not. 

The plan of salvation by the Lord God, and the plan of 
the Kingdom of God would not have consumed much time 
or space for their outlines of study, but the working 
out of the promised salvation and the promised Kingdom 
of God under the most complicated conditions, embracing 
centuries of time, needed much more explanation and 
confirmation ; and, hence, much more time and space than 
would otherwise have been necessary. 

The promised salvation by the Lord God is now en- 
joyed by millions on the earth, and by a multitude which 
no man could number in heaven, from all nations, kin- 
dreds, peoples and tongues. 



XXXIV 



All-Assuring Testimonies — How the Lord God Will 
Abundantly Supply All the Needs of Man by 
the Wonderful Salvation of Jesus Christ 

In view of the wonderful salvation accomplished for 
Man in his sinful condition, as previously outlined, it is 
most fitting and assuring to note the marvelous manner 
and gracious conditions upon which the Lord has been 
and is now ready to supply all of his innumerable and 
imperative needs. 

The statements here made for this purpose are all taken 
from the Hebrew revelation, the Bible, the Word of God. 
They include the testimonies of three of the best qualified 
and most reliable witnesses, whose knowledge is abso- 
lutely correct, acquired from unexampled experience, ob- 
servation and revelation. 

A. Testimony of King David who lived under and ruled 
over the limited and temporal kingdom of Israel in its 
best days. No other man was so well qualified as he to 
make known God's unparalleled dealings with the people 
of that nation, as well as the blessed experiences of all 
who trusted in God and conformed their lives to the laws 
and directions of Moses and the prophets, upon which 
that nation was founded and maintained. 

Selections from the following Psalms will suffice to 
demonstrate the foregoing statements: 

I. "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel 

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of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor 
sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 

2. But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in his 
law doth he meditate day and night. 

3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of 
water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season ; his leaf 
also shall not wither ; and whatsoever he doeth shall pros- 
per" (Psa. 1:1-3). 

1. "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 

2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he lead- 
eth me beside the still waters. 

3. He restoreth my soul : he leadeth me in the paths of 
righteousness for his name's sake. 

4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow 
of death, I will fear no evil : for thou art with me. Thy 
rod and thy staff, they comfort me. 

5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of 
mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup 
runneth over. 

6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the 
days of my life : and I will dwell in the house of the Lord 
for ever" (Psa. 23: 1-6). 

1. "Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be 
thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 

2. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and 
wither as the green herb. 

3. Trust in the Lord, and do good ; so shalt thou dwell 
in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 

4. Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give 
thee the desires of thine heart. 

5. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; 
and he shall bring it to pass. 

6. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the 
light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 

7. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him : fret not 
thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because 
of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass" (Psa. 

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1. "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence 
cometh my help. 

2. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven 
and earth. 

3. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that 
keepeth thee will not slumber. 

4. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber 
nor sleep. 

5. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon 
thy right hand. 

6. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by 
night. 

7. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall 
preserve thy soul. 

8. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy com- 
ing in from this time forth, and even for evermore ,, (Psa. 
121:1-8). 

1. "Bless the Lord, O my soul : and all that is within me, 
bless his holy name. 

2. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his 
benefits : 

3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all 
thy diseases; 

4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who 
crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies ; 

5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that 
thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. 

6. The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for 
all that are oppressed. 

7. He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto 
the children of Israel. 

8. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, 
and plenteous in mercy. 

9. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his 
anger for ever. 

10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor re- 
warded us according to our iniquities. 



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ii. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great 
is his mercy toward them that fear him. 

12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he 
removed our transgressions from us. 

13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord 
pitieth them that fear him. 

14. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that 
we are dust. 

15. As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the 
field, so he flourisheth. 

16. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the 
place thereof shall know it no more. 

17. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to 
everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteous- 
ness unto children's children ; 

18. To such as keep his covenant, and to those that re- 
member his commandments to do them. 

19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens ; 
and his kingdom ruleth over all. 

20. Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, 
that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of 
his word. 

21. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of 
his, that do his pleasure. 

22. Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his 
dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul" (Psa. 103: 1-22). 

B. Testimony of Jesus Christ. Jesus, Son of the Living 
God, Saviour, King, knew more than all others from 
greater experience, observation, revelation and from His 
Divinity. 

While in the flesh, at the beginning of his ministry on 
the earth, and in the sermon on the mount, Jesus made the 
following positive declaration with regard to Man's needs 
and their supply : 

24. "No man can serve two masters ; for either he will 
hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to 



ALL-ASSURING TESTIMONIES 241 

the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and 
mammon. 

25. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your 
life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for 
your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than 
meat, and the body than raiment ? 

26. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, 
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your 
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better 
than they ? 

27. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit 
unto his stature ? 

28. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider 
the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither 
do they spin : 

29. And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all 
his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, 
which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, 
shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

31. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we 
eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we 
be clothed ? 

32. (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) 
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of 
all these things. 

33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his right- 
eousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" 
(Matt. 6:24-33). 

This statement includes that all-comprehensive and 
most significant declaration of Jesus: "But seek ye first 
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness ; and all these 
things shall be added unto you." 

This declaration includes three very brief, but all-im- 
portant and inclusive statements : 

I. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God" — because the 



242 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Kingdom of God only affords abundant supplies for all 
the unlimited needs of the soul of man. 

2. "And his righteousness" — which is none other than 
Jesus Christ and His atonement for the sin of the world, 
and which only can afford an abundant entrance into the 
Kingdom of God, and a complete and never ending en- 
joyment of all its measureless supplies for the needs of 
the soul. 

3. "And all these things shall be added unto you." 
When a man seeks first the Kingdom of God and Jesus 
Christ, the righteousness of God, he will not only be 
afforded an abundant entrance into the Kingdom of God 
and the full enjoyment of all its infinite and eternal pro- 
visions for the needs of his Soul, but all of the temporal 
and finite needs of his body will be provided for until he 
passes from time to eternity, and from earth to heaven. 

C. Testimony of the Apostle Paul. Paul, the greatest 
of the apostles, ranked next to Jesus Christ in his knowl- 
edge from experience, observation and revelation. He 
was the chief of sinners and the chief of saints. Under 
the direction of the Holy Spirit sent from God the Father, 
and from Jesus Christ the Son at His right hand, Paul 
was the chosen vessel for the extension of the Kingdom 
of God to the nations of the earth. 

This is definitely expressed to Ananias by the Lord 
Himself as follows: 

15. "But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is 
a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gen- 
tiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : 

16. For I will shew him how great things he must suffer 
for my name's sake" (Acts 9: 15, 16). 

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ALL-ASSURING TESTIMONIES 243 

to learn from Paul's own testimony, not only how un- 
evenly, indeed, unsatisfactorily the needs of his body were 
met, but also how joyfully he maintained a constant, 
blessed contentment with the help of the Lord, namely : 

11. "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have 
learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 

12. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to 
abound: every where and in all things I am instructed 
both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to 
suffer need. 

13. I can do all things through Christ, which strength- 
ened me" (Phil. 4: 11-13). 

Paul experienced in his own life during his ministry 
more bodily suffering of every kind than perhaps any 
other man. On the other hand, however, his soul was 
filled with constant and rapturous joy by the glorious 
presence and the inspiring and heavenly comfort of Jesus 
Christ and the Holy Spirit. 

17. "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, 
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight 
of glory ; 

18. While we look not at the things which are seen, 
but at the things which are not seen : for the things which 
are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen 
are eternal" (II Cor. 4: 17, 18). 

Paul's steadfast faith in Jesus Christ his Lord, and his 
certain knowledge of what awaited him in the heavenly 
kingdom, never waned, but grew stronger and clearer up 
to and in the presence of his martyrdom, as expressed in 
that notable confession : 

6. "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my 
departure is at hand. 



244 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

7. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith : 

8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of right- 
eousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give 
me at that day : and not to me only, but unto all them also 
that love his appearing. . . . 

18. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil 
work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: 
to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen" (II Tim. 
4:6-8; 18). 

Many other Bible witnesses could be summoned to 
afford like testimonies upon this all important subject, and 
many other convincing testimonies of the witnesses al- 
ready summoned could be afforded; but it is wholly un- 
necessary. 

It will suffice to conclude this chapter of testimonies 
with Paul's glorious declaration upon Man's needs and 
their supplies, while he himself was experiencing great 
suffering of body, but greater joy of soul. It was sent in 
an epistle to the Philippian Christians, but is just as ap- 
plicable to all other Christians as to them, whether of the 
past, the present, or the future, who sincerely repent of 
their sins and put their whole trust in Jesus Christ as their 
God and Saviour. 

This all-inclusive and conclusive declaration of Paul 
indicates very definitely and positively Who will supply 
Man's needs, what needs will be supplied, how and to 
what extent they will be supplied, and by whom, and upon 
whose merits they will be supplied, as follows : 

19. "But my God shall supply all your need according to 
His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 

20. Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and 
ever. Amen" (Phil. 4: 19, 20). 



ALL-ASSURING TESTIMONIES 245 

As the account of Man's creation by God narrated in 
the Hebrew revelation, the Bible, specifies clearly and 
definitely what are the true and all-sufficient supplies for 
the needs of Man's body, so does the account of Man's 
salvation by Jesus Christ contained in that same revela- 
tion, the Bible, specify as clearly and definitely what are 
the true and all-sufficient supplies for the needs of Man's 
soul. 



XXXV 

Measureless and All-Satisfying Provisions of the 
Creator, God, for the Abundant Supply of All 
the Needs of the Soul of Man 

In the Hebrew revelation, the Bible, the word of the 
living God, are recounted over and over again, the mar- 
velous and measureless provisions of the Creator, God, 
for the needs of His creature, Man, both for his body 
and his soul. 

Accordingly, it is a comparatively easy task to specify 
the all-satisfying and all-sufficient provisions of the Cre- 
ator for the supply of the following most apparent and 
doubtless the greatest needs of Man's soul, as specified in 
Chapter IV of this volume, namely : 

1. An endless life of perfect love, joy, peace, and glory. 

2. Boundless, all-satisfying, incontestable, ever-availa- 
ble, and everlasting possessions. 

3. Absolutely true, unselfish, congenial, and transparent 
personal relationships, always abounding in words and 
acts of lovingkindness. 

4. A home, and abiding place or condition of inde- 
scribable attractiveness, comfort and loveliness, . and full 
of superlative joy and delight. 

5. Ruling with unobstructed justice and harmony 
amidst surpassing splendor and glory. 

6. An all-inclusive and perfect government, wherein 
the governing and the governed would be absolutely one 

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PROVISIONS OF GOD FOR THE SOUL 247 

in purpose, plan, and execution; wherein the interests of 
all would be sacredly guarded and inviolably secure ; and 
wherein the needs of all would be provided for without 
limit and constantly supplied to their utmost capacity with 
ever-unerring certainty. 

7. A Supreme Governor, all- wise, all- just, all-beneficent 
and almighty; in fact, a perfect Governor, none other 
than the Creator Himself, who alone knows all the needs 
of Man and all the provisions for their adequate supply. 
He must also have a perfect (sinless) human nature taken 
upon Himself, or in Himself, as a medium of common 
approach, intercourse, understanding, and cooperation 
with Man. 

Particular Needs of the Soul and the Provisions of the 
Creator, God, for Their Supply in Detail: 

1. An Endless Life of Perfect Love, Joy, Peace, and 
Glory a Comprehensive Need of the Soul. 

a. An Endless Life a Need of the Soul. "Life Ever- 
lasting" the Provision of the Creator for its Supply: 

(1) An endless life a need of the soul. 

(2) Eternal life provided for its supply. 

(3) It is available; but only through Jesus Christ. 

(4) It is adapted to the soul and this particular need. 

(5) It affords complete satisfaction. 

(6) It is everlasting. 

(7) It is all glorious. 

Selections from the Bible, God's Word, as Proof of 

Eternal Life: 

1. "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great 



248 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

prince which standeth for the children of thy people : and 
there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since 
there was a nation even to that same time : and at that 
time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be 
found written in the book. 

2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth 
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame 
and everlasting contempt. 

3. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of 
the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness 
as the stars for ever and ever" (Dan. 12 : 1-3). 

14. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilder- 
ness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 

15. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 
but have eternal life. 

16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not 
perish, but have everlasting life. 

17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn 
the world ; but that the world through him might be 
saved" (John 3: 14-17). 

24. "Verily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, He that 
heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath 
everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; 
but is passed from death unto life. 

25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, 
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son 
of God : and they that hear shall live. 

26. For as the Father hath life in Himself ; so hath he 
given to the Son to have life in himself ; 

2J. And hath given him authority to execute judgment 
also, because he is the Son of man. 

28. Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in the 
which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 

29. And shall come forth; they that have done good 
unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, 
unto the resurrection of damnation" (John 5:24-29). 



PROVISIONS OF GOD FOR THE SOUL 249 

25. "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the 
life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet 
shall he live : 

26. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall 
never die. Believest thou this?" (John n : 25, 26). 

29. "And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, 
There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or 
brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's 
sake, 

30. Who shall not receive manifold more in this present 
time, and in the world to come life everlasting" (Luke 
18:29,30). 

22. "But now being made free from sin, and become 
servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the 
end everlasting life. 

2^. For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is 
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom. 
6:22,23). 

7. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatso- 
ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 

8. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap 
corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the 
Spirit reap life everlasting" (Gal. 6:7, 8). 

15. "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all accepta- 
tion, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save 
sinners ; of whom I am chief. 

16. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in 
me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, 
for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on 
him to life everlasting. 

17. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the 
only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. 
Amen" (I Tim. 1 : 15-17). 

24. "Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have 
heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard 



250 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall con- 
tinue in the Son, and in the Father. 

25. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, 
even eternal life" (I John 2: 24, 25). 

11. "And this is the record, that God hath given to us 
eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 

12. He that hath the Son hath life ; and he that hath not 
the Son of God hath not life. 

13. These things have I written unto you that believe 
on the name of the Son of God ; that ye may know that ye 
have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of 
the Son of God" (I John 5: 11-13). 

b. Perfect Love, Joy, Peace, and Glory, Needs of the 
Soul: 

(1) Perfect love, joy, peace, and glory — needs of the 
soul. 

(2) Perfect love, joy peace, and glory — provisions of 
the Creator for these needs. 

(3) They are available; but only through Jesus Christ. 

(4) They are in every respect adapted to these needs. 

(5) They afford overwhelming satisfaction. 

(6) They are without limit. 

(7) As supplies they are enrapturing. 

The following selections are proofs of the heavenly and 
overwhelming provisions of the Creator, God, for the 
supply of the above specified needs of the soul : 

First, Perfect Love, a Need of the Soul. "The Love 
of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge," the Provision of 
the Creator for Its Supply. 

16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not 
perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3: 16). 



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I. "Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus 
knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of 
this world unto the Father, having loved his own which 
were in the world, he loved them unto the end" (John 

13:*)- 

9. "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : 
continue ye in my love. 

10. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my 
love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, 
and abide in his love" (John 15 : 9, 10). 

5. "And hope maketh not ashamed ; because the love of 
God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost 
which is given unto us" (Rom. 5:5). 

35. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or 
nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

36. As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the 
day long ; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 

37. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors 
through him that loved us. 

38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor 
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, 
nor things to come, 

39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall 
be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in 
Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8: 35-39). 

9. "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear 
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the 
things which God hath prepared for them that love him" 
(I Cor. 2:9). 

II. "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good 
comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of 
love and peace shall be with you" (II Cor. 13: 11). 

20. "I am crucified with Christ ; nevertheless I live ; yet 



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not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now 
live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who 
loved me, and gave Himself for me" (Gal. 2 : 20) . 

4. "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love 
wherewith he loved us, 

5. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us 
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 

6. And hath raised us up together, and made us sit to- 
gether in heavenly places in Christ Jesus : 

7. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceed- 
ing riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us through 
Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2 : 4-7). 

17. "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that 
ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 

18. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is 
the breadth, and length, and depth, and height ; 

19. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth 
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of 
God. 

20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abund- 
antly above all that we ask or think, according to the 
power that worketh in us, 

21. Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus 
throughout all ages, world without end. Amen" (Eph. 
3:17-21). 

16. "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even 
our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us ever- 
lasting consolation and good hope through grace, 

17. Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every 
good word and work" (II Thess. 2: 16, 17). 

I. "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath be- 
stowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God : 
therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him 
not" (I John 3:1). 



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7. "Beloved, let us love one another ; for love is of God ; 
and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth 
God. 

8. He that loveth not knoweth not God ; for God is love. 

9. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, 
because that God sent his only begotten Son into the 
world, that we might live through him. 

10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he 
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our 
sins. . . . 

15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of 
God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 

16. And we have known and believed the love that God 
hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love 
dwelleth in God, and God in him" (I John 4: 7-10, 15, 16). 

5. "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, 
and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the 
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed 
us from our sins in his own blood, 

6. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and 
his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and 
ever. Amen" (Rev. 1:5,6). 

Second, Perfect Joy a Need of the Soul. "Joy, Un- 
speakable and Full of Glory" the Provision of the Creator 
for Its Supply. 

28. "Thou hast made known to me the ways of life ; 
thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance" 
(Acts 2:28). 

52. "And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the 
Holy Ghost" (Acts 13:52). 

24. "But none of these things move me, neither count I 
my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course 
with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the 



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Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God" 
(Acts 20: 24). 

11. "And not only so, but we also joy in God through 
our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received 
the atonement" (Rom. 5: 11). 

17. "For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but 
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost" 
(Rom. 14: 17). 

13. "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace 
in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the 
power of the Holy Ghost" (Rom. 15 : 13). 

1. "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace 
of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; 

2. How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance 
of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the 
riches of their liberality" (II Cor. 8: 1, 2). 

22. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- 
suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith" (Gal. 5:22). 

19. "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoic- 
ing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus 
Christ at his coming? 

20. For ye are our glory and joy" (I Thess. 2 : 19, 20). 

9. "For what thanks can we render to God again for 
you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes 
before our God?" (I Thess. 3:9). 

2. "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our 
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured 
the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right 
hand of the throne of God" (Heb. 12 : 2). 

9. "Whom having not seen ye love; in whom though 



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now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy un- 
speakable and full of glory" (I Peter 1:9), 

13. "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of 
Christ's sufferings ; that when his glory shall be revealed, 
ye may be glad also with exceeding joy" (I Peter 4: 13). 

4. "And these things write we unto you, that your joy 
may be full" (I John 1:4). 

24. "Now unto him that is able to keep you from fall- 
ing, and to present you faultless before the presence of 
his glory with exceeding joy, 

25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and 
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen" 
'(Jude:24, 25). 

Third, Perfect Peace a Need of the Soul. "Peace of 
God Which Passeth All Understanding" the Provision of 
the Creator for Its Supply. 

13. "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude 
of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 

14. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, 
good will toward men" (Luke 2: 13, 14). 

2J. "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you : 
not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your 
heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14: 27). 

33. "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye 
might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation : 
but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 
16:33). 

36. "The word which God sent unto the children of 
Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of 
all:)" (Acts 10:36). 



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10. "But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that 
worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile" 
(Rom. 2: 10). 

1. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace 
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:1). 

15. "And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as 
it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that 
preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good 
things!" (Rom. 10:15). 

17. "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; but 
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost" 
(Rom. 14: 17). 

13. "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace 
in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the 
power of the Holy Ghost" (Rom. 15 : 13). 

2.2. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- 
suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith" (Gal. 5:22). 

14. "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and 
hath broken down the middle wall of partition between 
us; 

15. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the 
law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to 
make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace ; 

16. And that he might reconcile both unto God in one 
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby ; 

17. And came and preached peace to you who were afar 
off, and to them that were nigh" (Eph. 2 : 14-17). 

7. "And the peace of God, which passeth all understand- 
ing, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ 
Jesus" (Phil. 4: 7). 

3. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the 



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which also ye are called in one body : and be ye thankful" 
(Col. 3:15). 

16. "Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace al- 
ways by all means. The Lord be with you all" (II Thess. 

3:16). 

20. "Now the God of peace, that brought again from 
the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, 
through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 

21. Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, 
working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, 
through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. 
Amen" (Rev. 1:4-6). 

4. "John to the seven churches which are in Asia ; Grace 
be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which 
was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits 
which are before his throne ; 

5. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, 
and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the 
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed 
us from our sins in his own blood, 

6. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his 
Father ; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. 
Amen" (Rev. 1:4-6). 

Fourth, Perfect Glory a Need of the Soul. "A Far 
More Exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory" the Pro- 
vision of the Creator for Its Supply. 

5. "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own 
self with the glory which I had with thee before the world 
was. 

6. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou 
gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou 
gavest them me ; and they have kept thy word. . . . 

10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I 
am glorified in them. . . . 



258 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

22. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given 
them; that they may be one, even as we are one" (John 
17:5,6, 10,22). 

18. "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present 
time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which 
shall be revealed in us. 

19. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth 
for the manifestation of the sons of God. 

20. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not 
willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the 
same in hope. 

21. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered 
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty 
of the children of God" (Rom. 8: 18-21). 

7. "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even 
the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world 
unto our glory ; 

8. Which none of the princes of this world knew : for 
had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord 
of glory. 

9. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things 
which God hath prepared for them that love him" (I 
Cor. 2: 7-9). 

18. "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass 
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image 
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord" 
(II Cor. 3:18). 

17. "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, 
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight 
of glory ; 

18. While we look not at the things which are seen, but 
at the things which are not seen : for the things which are 
seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are 
eternal" (II Cor. 4: 17, 18). 



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17. 'That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father 
of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and 
revelation in the knowledge of him: 

18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; 
that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and 
what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the 
saints" (Eph. 1 : 17, 18). 

13. "Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribu- 
lations for you, which is your glory. 

14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, 

15. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is 
named, 

16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of 
his glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in 
the inner man ; 

17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that 
ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 

18. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is 
the breadth, and length, and depth, and height ; 

19. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth 
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of 
God. 

20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abun- 
dantly above all that we ask or think, according to the 
power that worketh in us, 

21. Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus 
throughout all ages, world without end. Amen" (Eph. 
3:13-21). 

21. "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be 
fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the 
working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto 
himself" (Phil. 3:21). 

1. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things 
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand 
of God. 



260 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

2. Set your affections on things above, not on things on 
the earth. 

3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in 
God. 

4. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall 
ye also appear with him in glory" (Col. 3 : 1-4). 

10. "Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, 
that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ 
Jesus with eternal glory" (II Tim. 2: 10). 

9. "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than 
the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory 
and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste 
death for every man. 

10. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by 
whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to 
make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffer- 
ings" (Heb. 2:9, 10). 

7. "That the trial of your faith, being much more pre- 
cious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with 
fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at 
the appearing of Jesus Christ : 

8. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though 
now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy un- 
speakable and full of glory. 

9. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation 
of your souls" (1 Peter 1 : 7-9). 

13. "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of 
Christ's sufferings : that, when his glory shall be revealed, 
ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 

14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy 
are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon 
you : on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part 
he is glorified" (I Peter 4: 13, 14). 

1. "The elders which are among you I exhort, who 



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am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, 
and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed ; 

4. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall 
receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. . . . 

10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto 
his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suf- 
fered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, 
settle you. 

11. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. 
Amen" (I Peter 5 : 1, 4, 10, 11). 

2. "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the 
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 

3. According as his divine power hath given unto us all 
things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the 
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 

4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and pre- 
cious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the 
divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the 
world through lust" (II Peter 1 : 2-4). 

24. "Now unto him that is able to keep you from fall- 
ing, and to present you faultless before the presence of 
his glory with exceeding joy, 

25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and 
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen" 
(Jude 24, 25). 

2. Boundless, All-Satisfying, Incontestable, Ever- Avail- 
able and Everlasting Possessions. 

(1) Boundless possessions, a need of the soul. 

(2) Boundless provisions of the Creator for their 
supply. 

(3) They are available; but only through Jesus Christ. 

(4) They are perfectly adapted to this special need of 
the soul. 

(5) They afford perfect satisfaction. 

(6) They are measureless in quantity. 



262 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

(7) Enjoyment of these possessions is all-glorious. 

Selections from the Bible, the Word of God, as Proofs 
of the Boundless Provisions of the Creator, God, for the 
Supply of This Special Need of the Soul : 

First, For the Children and Heirs of God. 

14. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they 
are the sons of God. 

15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage 
again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, 
whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 

16. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, 
that we are the children of God : 

17. And if children, then heirs ; heirs of God, and joint 
heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that 
we may be also glorified together. 

18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time 
are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall 
be revealed in us. . . . 

21. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered 
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty 
of the children of God" (Rom. 8: 14-18, 21). 

26. "For ye are all the children of God by faith in 
Christ Jesus. 

27. For as many of you as have been baptized into 
Christ have put on Christ. 

28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither 
bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye 
are all one in Christ Jesus. 

29. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, 
and heirs according to the promise" (Gal. 3:26-29). 

3. "How that by revelation he made known unto me the 
mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, 

4. Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my 
knowledge in the mystery of Christ) 

5. Which in other ages was not made known unto the 



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sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles 
and prophets by the Spirit; 

6. That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the 
same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the 
gospel" (Eph. 3:3-6). 

1. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners 
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 

2. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, 
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also 
he made the worlds ; . . . 

13. But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit 
on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy foot- 
stool ? 

14. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to 
minister for them who shall be the heirs of salvation?" 
(Heb. 1:1,2, 13, 14). 

7. "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not 
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the sav- 
ing of his house; by the which he condemned the world, 
and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith" 
(Heb. 11:7). 

5. "Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen 
the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the king- 
dom which he hath promised to them that love him?" 
(James 2:5). 

Second, Inheritances. 

32. "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to 
the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and 
to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanc- 
tified" (Acts 20: 32). 

17. "Delivering thee from the people, and from the 
Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, 

18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness 
to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they 



264 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among 
them which are sanctified by faith that is in me" (Acts 
26: 17, 18). 

3. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in 
heavenly places in Christ : 

4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the 
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and with- 
out blame before him in love : 

5. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of chil- 
dren by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good 
pleasure of his will, 

6. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he 
hath made us accepted in the beloved. . . . 

11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, 
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who 
worketh all things after the counsel of his own will : 

12. That we should be to the praise of his glory, who 
first trusted in Christ. 

13. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the 
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also 
after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit 
of promise, 

14. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the 
redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise 
of his glory" (Eph. 1 : 3-6, n-14). 

12. "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us 
meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in 
light" (Col. 1:12). 

15. "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new 
testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of 
the transgressions that were under the first testament, 
they which are called might receive the promise of 
eternal inheritance" (Heb. 9: 15). 

3. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 



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Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath be- 
gotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of 
Jesus Christ from the dead, 

4. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefined, and 
that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you, 

5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto 
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time" (I Peter 

i:3-5). 

Third, Extent of the Possessions. 

31. "What shall we then say to these things? If God 
be for us, who can be against us? 

32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him 
up for us all, How shall he not with him also freely give 
us all things?" (Rom. 8:31, 32). 

21. "Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things 
are your's ; 

22. Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, 
or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; 
all are your's ; 

23. And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's" (I Cor. 
3:21-23). ' 

6. "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom 
are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, 
by whom are all things, and we by him" ( I Cor. 8:6). 

14. "Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus 
shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with 
you. 

15. For all things are for your sakes, that the abun- 
dant grace might through the thanksgiving of many re- 
dound to the glory of God" (II Cor. 4: 14, 15). 

10. "As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet 
making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing 
all things" (II Cor. 6: 10). 



266 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

5. "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I 
make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for 
these words are true and faithful. 

6. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and 
Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him 
that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 

7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things ; and I 
will be his God, and he shall be my son" (Rev. 21 : 5-7). 

3. Absolutely True, Unselfish, Congenial and Trans- 
parent Personal Relationships, Always Abounding in 
Words and Acts of Lovingkindness, a Need of the Soul. 

(1) Absolutely true, unselfish, congenial and transpar- 
ent personal relationships, always abounding in words and 
acts of lovingkindness, a need of the soul. 

(2) There are definite provisions of the Creator, God, 
for this need of the soul. 

(3) They are available; but only through Jesus Christ. 

(4) They are adapted in every respect to this need. 

(5) They will afford complete satisfaction. 

(6) They are innumerable, and 

(7) They are surpassingly enjoyable. 

These relationships will consist chiefly of God the 
Father, Jesus Christ His Son, the saints or the children 
of God, and the holy angels. 

Selections from the Bible, the Word of God, as Proofs. 

12. "For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then 
face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know 
even as also I am known" (I Cor. 13: 12). 

20. "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence 
also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ : 

21. Who shall change our vile body, that it may be 



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fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the 
working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto 
himself" (Phil. 3: 20, 21). 

1. "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things 
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of 
God. 

2. Set your affections on things above, not on things on 
the earth. 

3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in 
God. 

4. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall 
ye also appear with him in glory" (Col. 3: 1-4). 

14. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, 
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring 
with him. 

15. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, 
that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of 
the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 

16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the 
trump of God ; and the dead in Christ shall rise first : 

17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught 
up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in 
the air : and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 

18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words" 
(I Thess. 4: 14-18). 

2. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth 
not yet appear what we shall be : but we know that, when 
he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see 
him as he is" (I John 3:2). 

35. "But they which shall be accounted worthy to ob- 
tain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, 
neither marry, nor are given in marriage : 

36. Neither can they die any more : for they are equal 



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unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the 
children of the resurrection" (Luke 20:35, 36). 

22. "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the 
city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an 
innumerable company of angels, 

23. To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, 
which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, 
and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 

24. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and 
to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than 
that of Abel" (Heb. 12: 22-24). 

1. "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the 
first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and 
there was no more sea. 

2. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, com- 
ing down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride 
adorned for her husband. 

3. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Be- 
hold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself 
shall be with them, and be their God. 

4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; 
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor cry- 
ing, neither shall there be any more pain : for the former 
things are passed away" (Rev. 21 : 1-4). 

4. A Home, an Abiding Place, or Condition of Inde- 
scribable Attractiveness, Comfort and Loveliness, and 
Full of Superlative Joy and Delight, A Need of the Soul. 

(1) A home of superlative joy and delight a need of the 
soul. 

(2) There are appointed provisions of the Creator, God, 
for this need of the soul. 

(3) They are available; but only through Jesus Christ. 



PROVISIONS OF GOD FOR THE SOUL 269 

(4) They are perfectly adapted to this particular need 
of the soul. 

(5) They will afford perfect satisfaction. 

(6) They are beyond description, and 

(7) They are surpassingly glorious. 

To have a home in heaven would afford the greatest 
delight. To dwell in the mansions of God, the Father, 
in heaven would be joy itself. To dwell in a place pre- 
pared for us in the mansions of God the Father by His 
Son Jesus Christ, the carpenter of Nazareth, would be 
glorious. To dwell with the Lord Jesus in such a pre- 
pared place as expressed by Himself would be all-glori- 
ous. But the answer to His prayer to the Father that we 
might be with the Lord Jesus Christ in such a home to 
behold the glory given Him by God the Father, would be 
joy and glory indescribable. 

Selections from the Bible, the Word of God, as Proofs. 

14. "For here have we no continuing city, but we seek 
one to come" (Heb. 13: 14). 

1. "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, 
believe also in me. 

2. In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were 
not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for 
you. 

3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come 
again, and receive you unto myself ; that where I am, 
there ye may be also" (John 14: 1-3). 

24. "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given 
me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my 
glory, which thou hast given me : for thou lovedst me be- 
fore the foundation of the world" (John 17: 24). 



270 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

34. "For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and 
took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in 
yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an endur- 
ing substance. 

35. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which 
hath great recompense of reward. 

36. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have 
done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 

37. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will 
come, and will not tarry" (Heb. 10: 34-37). 

3. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath be- 
gotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of 
Jesus Christ from the dead, 

4. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and 
that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 

5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith 
unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, 
if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold tempta- 
tions : 

7. That the trial of your faith, being much more pre- 
cious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with 
fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at 
the appearing of Jesus Christ" (I Peter 1 : 3-7). 

1. "For we know that if our earthly house of this taber- 
nacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house 
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" (II Cor. 

5:1)- 

5. Ruling with Unobstructed Justice and Harmony 
Amidst Surpassing Splendor and Glory, A Need of the 
Soul. 

(1) To rule with unobstructed justice and harmony 
amidst surpassing splendor and glory, a need of the soul. 



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(2) The provisions of the Creator, God, for this need 
are certain. 

(3) They are available; but only through Jesus Christ. 

(4) Are wonderfully adapted to this special need. 

(5) Afford complete satisfaction. 

(6) Are beyond comprehension in extent, and 

(7) Are experienced with inexpressible delight. 

Attesting Proofs from the Bible, God's Word, that 
These Statements are True. 

28. "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, 
That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration 
when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, 
ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel" (Matt. 19:28). 

28. "Ye are they which have continued with me in my 
temptations. 

29. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father 
hath appointed unto me; 

30. That ye may eat and drink at my table in my king- 
dom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of 
Israel" (Luke 22: 28-30). 

11. "It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, 
we shall also live with him : 

12. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him" (II 
Tim. 2: 11, 12). 

26. "And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works 
unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations : 

2.J. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the 
vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers : even 
as I received of my Father. 

28. And I will give him the morning star. 

29. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit 
saith unto the churches" (Rev. 2:26-29). 



272 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

9. "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy 
to take the book, and to open the seals thereof : for thou 
wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out 
of every kindred and tongue, and people, and nation ; 

10. And hast made us unto our God kings and priests : 
and we shall reign on the earth" (Rev. 5: 9, 10). 

4. "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and 
judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of 
them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for 
the word of God, and which had not worshipped the 
beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark 
upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived 
and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 

5. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the 
thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrec- 
tion. 

6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first 
resurrection : on such the second death hath no power, but 
they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign 
with him a thousand years" (Rev. 20:4-6). 

3. "And there shall be no more curse : but the throne of 
God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall 
serve him : 

4. And they shall see his face ; and his name shall be in 
their foreheads. 

5. And there shall be no night there; and they need no 
candle, neither light of the sun ; for the Lord giveth them 
light: and they shall reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 
22:3-5). 

6. An All-inclusive and Perfect Government, Wherein 
the Governing and the Governed Would Be Absolutely 
One in Purpose, Plan and Execution; Wherein the Inter- 
ests of All Would Be Sacredly Guarded and Inviolably 
Secure; and Wherein the Needs of All Would Be Pro- 



PROVISIONS OF GOD FOR THE SOUL 273 

vided for Without Limit and Constantly Supplied to 
Their Utmost Capacity with Ever-Unerring Certainty, a 
Need of the Soul. 

(1) And all-inclusive and perfect government, a need 
of the soul. 

(2) Such a government has been provided by the 
Creator, God, for this need. 

(3) It is available; but only through Jesus Christ. 

(4) It is marvelously adapted to this great need of the 
soul. 

(5) And infinitely satisfying to it. 

(6) It is great and true beyond measure and doubt. 

(7) And transcendently glorious in every way. 

Selections from the Bible, the Word of God, to Verify the 
Truth of the Above Statement. 

3. "Blessed are the poor in spirit : for their's is the king- 
dom of heaven" (Matt. 5:3). 

n. "And I say unto you, That many shall come from 
the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and 
Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 
8:11). 

37. "He -answered and said unto them, He that soweth 
the good seed is the Son of Man; 

38. The field is the world; the good seed are the chil- 
dren of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the 
wicked one. . . . 

46. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and 
they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, 
and them which do iniquity. . . . 

43. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in 
the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let 
him hear" (Matt. 13: 37, 38, 41, 43). 



274 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

34. "Then shall the King say unto them on his right 
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom 
prepared for you from the foundation of the world" 
(Matt. 25:34). 

29. "But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of 
this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new 
with you in my Father's kingdom" (Matt. 26: 29). 

30. "That ye may eat and drink at my table in my king- 
dom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of 
Israel" (Luke 22: 30). 

3. "To whom also he shewed himself alive after his pas- 
sion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty 
days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the king- 
dom of God" (Acts 1:3). 

22. "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting 
them to continue in the faith, and that we must through 
much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God" (Acts 
14: 22). 

23. "And when they appointed him a day, there came 
many to him into his lodging ; to whom he expounded and 
testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning 
Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the 
prophets, from morning till evening" (Acts 28:23). 

12. "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made 
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints 
in light : 

13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, 
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son : 

14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, 
even the forgiveness of sins" (Col. 1 : 12-14). 

3. "We are bound to thank God always for you, 
brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth 



PROVISIONS OF GOD FOR THE SOUL 275 

exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all 
toward each other aboundeth ; 

4. So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of 
God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions 
and tribulations that ye endure : 

5. Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment 
of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of 
God, for which ye also suffer. . . . 

7. And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the 
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty 
angels. . . . 

10. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and 
to be admired in all them that believe (because our testi- 
mony among you was believed) in that day" (II Thess. 
1:3-5, 7> 10). 

28. "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot 
be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God 
acceptably with reverence and godly fear : 

29. For our God is a consuming fire" (Heb. 12 : 28, 29). 

5. "Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God 
chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of 
the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love 
him?" (James 2:5). 

10. "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to 
make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these 
things, ye shall never fall : 

11. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you 
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ" (II Peter 1 : 10, 11). 

15. "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were 
great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world 
are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ; 
and he shall reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 11 : 15). 

JO. "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is 



276 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our 
God, and the power of his Christ : for the accuser of our 
brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God 
day and night. 

II. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, 
and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not 
their lives unto the death" (Rev. 12: 10, 11). 

7. A Supreme Governor, All-Wise, All-Just, All-Benefi- 
cent and Almighty, in Fact a Perfect Governor, None 
Other than the Creator Himself, Who Alone Knows All 
the Needs of Man and the Provisions for Their Adequate 
Supply. He Must Also Have a Perfect (Sinless) Human 
Nature Taken upon Himself or in Himself, as a Medium 
of Common Approach, Intercourse, Understanding, and 
Cooperation with Man, a Need of the Soul. 

(1) A supreme Governor, indeed a perfect Governor, a 
need of the soul. 

(2) Such a Governor has been provided by the Creator, 
God, for this infinite need. 

(3) He is available; but only through Jesus Christ. 

(4) He is in all respects adapted to this need. 

(5) He will overwhelmingly satisfy it. 

(6) He is beyond all measure and calculation sufficient. 

(7) His ruling will be all-glorious and will afford in- 
expressible joy and delight. 

Quotations from the Bible, God's Word, That Demon- 
strate the Truth of the Above Statement. 

31. "And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 

32. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne 
of his father David : 



PROVISIONS OF GOD FOR THE SOUL 277 

33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for- 
ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end" (Luke 

i:3i-33)- 

37. "And when he (Jesus) was come nigh, even now at 
the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude 
of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a 
loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen ; 

38. Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the 
name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the high- 
est. 

39. And some of the Pharisees from among the multi- 
tude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. 

40. And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, 
if these should hold their peace, the stones would imme- 
diately cry out" (Luke 19: 37-40). 

31. "When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and 
all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the 
throne of his glory : 

32. And before him shall be gathered all nations : and 
he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd 
divideth his sheep from the goats: 

33. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but 
the goats on the left. 

34. Then shall the King say unto them on his right 
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom 
prepared for you from the foundation of the world" 
(Matt. 25:31-34). 

41. "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and 
they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, 
and them which do iniquity. . . . 

43. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the 
kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him 
hear" (Matt. 13:41, 43). 

12. "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made 
us meet to be partakers of the saints in light : 



278 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, 
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son : 

14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, 
even the forgiveness of sins : 

15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn 
of every creature : 

16. For by him were all things created, that are in 
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, 
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, 
or powers : all things were created by him, and for him ; 

17. And he is before all things, and by him all things 
consist. 

18. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is 
the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all 
things he might have the preeminence. 

19. For it pleased the Father that in him should all 
fulness dwell ; 

20. And, having made peace through the blood of his 
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself ; by him, 
I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in 
heaven" (Col. 1:12-20). 

12. "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal 
life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a 
good profession before many witnesses. 

13. I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quick- 
eneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before 
Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession ; 

14. That thou keep this commandment without spot, 
unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus 
Christ : 

15. Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed 
and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords ; 

16. Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light 
which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath 
seen, nor can see; to whom be honour and power ever- 
lasting. Amen" (I Tim. 6: 12-16). 

1. "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord 



PROVISIONS OF GOD FOR THE SOUL 279 

Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at 
his appearing and his kingdom ; 

2. Preach the word ; be instant in season, out of season ; 
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuflering and doc- 
trine" (II. Tim. 4:1, 2). 

3. "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of 
God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and mar- 
vellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just and true 
are thy ways, thou King of saints. 

4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy 
name ? for thou only art holy : for all nations shall come 
and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made 
manifest" (Rev. 15:3,4). 

14. "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the 
Lamb shall overcome them : for he is Lord of lords, and 
King of kings : and they that are with him are called, and 
chosen, and faithful" (Rev. 17:14). 

9. "And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they 
which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. 
And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. 

10. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said 
unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, 
and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: 
worship God : for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of 
prophecy. 

11. And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white 
horse ; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and 
True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 

12. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head 
were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no 
man knew, but he himself. 

13. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: 
and his name is called The Word of God. 

14. And the armies which were in heaven followed him 
upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, 



280 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

15. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that 
with it he should smite the nations ; and he shall rule them 
with a rod of iron ; and he treadeth the winepress of the 
fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 

16. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name 
written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS" 
(Rev. 19:9-16). 



XXXVI 

With Infinite Love and Harmony God the Father 
Rules Together With the Lord Jesus Christ, 
His Only Begotten Son, in the Kingdom of 
Heaven 

The kingdom of heaven is an everlasting kingdom and 
will accomplish all its glorious purposes for all of its sub- 
jects, with absolute completeness and with unerring cer- 
tainty. 

The following vision of that kingdom shown to John, 
the beloved disciple of Jesus, by the angel and described 
by John in the Revelation, will serve to impress our 
minds and hearts with its glorious character and reality : 

9. "And there came unto me one of the seven angels 
which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, 
and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee 
the bride, the Lamb's wife. 

10. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and 
high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy 
Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 

11. Having the glory of God: and her light was like 
unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear 
as crystal; 

12. And had a wall great and high, and had twelve 
gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written 
thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the 
children of Israel: 

13. On the east three gates; on the north three gates; 
on the south three gates ; and on the west three gates, 

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14. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, 
and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 

15. And he that talked with me had a golden reed to 
measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall 
thereof. 

16. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as 
large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the 
reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the 
breadth and the heighth of it are equal. 

17. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and 
forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, 
that is, of the angel. 

18. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper : 
and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 

19. And the foundations of the wall of the city were 
garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first 
foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, 
a_ chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald; 

20. The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, 
chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the 
tenth, a chrysoprasus ; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, 
an amethyst. 

21. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every 
several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city 
was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 

22. And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Al- 
mighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 

23. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the 
moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God did lighten it, 
and the Lamb is the light thereof. 

24. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk 
in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring 
their glory and honour into it. 

25. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: 
for there shall be no night there. 

26. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the na- 
tions into it. 

27. And there shall in no wise enter into it anything 



GOD THE FATHER RULES WITH CHRIST 283 

that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, 
or maketh a lie : but they which are written in the Lamb's 
book of life" (Rev. 21 : 9-27). 

1. "And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, 
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and 
of the Lamb. 

2. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of 
the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve 
manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month : and 
the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 

3. And there shall be no more curse : but the throne of 
God and of the Lamb shall be in it ; and his servants shall 
serve him: 

4. And they shall see his face ; and his name shall be in 
their foreheads. 

5. And there shall be no night there ; and they need no 
candle, neither light of the sun ; for the Lord God giveth 
them light : and they shall reign for ever and ever. 

6. And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful 
and true : and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his 
angel to shew unto his servants the things which must 
shortly be done" (Rev. 22: 1-6). 



XXXVII 

All of the Needs of the Soul Are Provided for by 
the Creator, God, with Supplies All-Satisfying 
and Unlimited 

What is true of these first seven and most apparent 
needs of the soul, and the provisions of the Creator for 
their abundant supply, as previously outlined, is just as 
true of all the needs of the soul whether we know them 
or not. 

They are all provided for by the Creator, God, with 
supplies perfectly adapted to them, that afford complete 
satisfaction, unlimited in quantity and glorious in realiza- 
tion. 

As certain as are the needs of the soul, so certain are 
the provisions of the Creator, God, for their adequate 
supply. 

If, therefore, we may discover any real need of the soul, 
however obscure, we can rest assured that there are 
abundant provisions of the Creator, God, for its complete 
and satisfactory supply, though we may not be able to 
discern them. 

As previously stated, the Lord God has practically 
turned over to Man the provisions for the needs of their 
bodies to be distributed by themselves among themselves, 
but ever retains a supply for all who put their whole trust 
in Him in the name and for the sake of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

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NEEDS OF THE SOUL PROVIDED FOR 285 

Notwithstanding the great abundance of the provisions 
for all the needs of their bodies, the distribution of them 
by men themselves is so selfishly and inequitably done, 
that some receive too much of one thing and others too 
little, while none of them receive a full supply of these 
provisions for all of their bodily needs. 

The Lord God has reserved to Himself the distribution 
of the infinitely greater and more glorious provisions for 
the needs of the soul of Man. 

No man nor set of men, however powerful, can of 
themselves, secure any part of these provisions for them- 
selves, or for distribution to others, except in God's own 
appointed way. 

They are, however, freely and abundantly bestowed by 
the Lord God Himself upon all, and none others, who 
seek them in the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ 
and His righteousness. 

Since there can be no reasonable doubt of the unlimited 
needs of the soul of Man both in number and magnitude 
and also of the boundless provisions of the Creator, God, 
for their satisfactory supply, how precious and assuring 
to our minds and hearts is that positive and glorious 
declaration of the great Apostle Paul as follows : 

"But My God Shall Supply All Your Need According 
to His Riches in Glory by. Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4: 19). 



XXXVIII 

The Natural Man and How He Can Be Made, by 
Jesus Christ, a Worthy Partaker of All the 
Provisions of the Creator, God, for All the 
Needs of His Soul 

Hitherto much time and space have been devoted to 
the consideration of the needs of the soul of Man and 
of the provisions of the Creator, God, for their ade- 
quate and satisfactory supply. It is quite as essential 
indeed that we consider the natural Man and how he may 
be made worthy to partake freely and without limit of 
all the amazing and glorious provisions of the Creator, 
God, for all the needs of his soul. 

The natural Man of himself can have no part in the 
kingdom of heaven. It is a spiritual kingdom and must 
be spiritually discerned and experienced. The natural 
Man is dead spiritually, and consequently blind and in- 
sensible to the kingdom of heaven and to all of its glorious 
realities. 

A. The Lord Jesus Christ spake very Positively, De- 
finitely, and Clearly on This All-Important Subject in His 
Interview with Nicodemus. 

i. "There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nico- 
demus, a ruler of the Jews : 

2. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, 
Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God : 

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for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except 
God be with him" (John 3:1,2). 

I. The Natural Man Must Be Born Again 

Nicodemus came to Jesus to get first hand information 
from a teacher direct from God, and he received it. 
Surely no one was better qualified to afford Nicodemus 
the information he needed. Accordingly, we must 
hearken unto and heed the all-inclusive and conclusive 
statement to Nicodemus by Jesus Christ, not only the 
teacher from God, but the only begotten Son of God: 

3. "J esus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I 
say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see 
the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). 

This is a far-reaching prohibitory statement. "Except 
a man" means, except every Man. It includes all men, 
the whole human race. They are all not only barred from 
the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God, which Jesus 
Christ was then establishing upon the earth for Man, 
but from the very sight of it, unless they are born again. 
Nicodemus did not understand this statement and said 
unto Jesus, 

4. "How can a man be born when he is old? can he 
enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be 
born?" (John 3:4). 

5. "Again, Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto 
thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, 
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that 
which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3 : 5, 6). 

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288 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

He specified the two births a man must undergo before he 
can enter into the kingdom of God. He must be born of 
water and of the Spirit. 

In the second part of this answer of Jesus, He made 
known to Nicodemus the character of these two births 
and what would come of them. First, the birth of water 
is the birth of the flesh and the birth of the Spirit is the 
birth of the spirit. 

Second, that which is born of water, of the flesh, is the 
flesh Man, the carnal Man, the natural Man; and that 
which is born of the spirit is the flesh Man, the carnal 
Man, the natural Man, born again of the Spirit and be- 
comes a spirit Man. 

A third time Jesus said unto Nicodemus: 

7. " Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born 
again" (John 3:7). 

While Nicodemus was a Pharisee, a ruler of the Jews, 
and doubtless a moral and devout man according to the 
law of Moses, he was yet only a flesh man, a carnal man, 
a natural man, and must be born again of the Spirit, to 
be able to see or enter into the Kingdom of God. 

Without question, Nicodemus was ready to do anything 
that Jesus, the teacher come from God, might require of 
him. He must have been exceedingly perplexed to learn 
that he could do nothing, that he was a dead man that 
needed to be born again. 

Jesus then proclaimed to the astonished Nicodemus the 
glorious gospel of the Kingdom of God, that, since he 
could do nothing of himself to gain entrance into the king- 
dom of God, he was required to do nothing, but to believe 
in the all-righteous substitute, Jesus Christ, provided by 



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God for all men and for him, and receive eternal life and 
the right to enter into the Kingdom of God. 

2. How He Can and Must Be Born Again 

This gospel was made very clear to Nicodemus by the 
following very plain, but all-inclusive and conclusive 
declaration of Jesus Christ : 

14. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilder- 
ness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up : 

15. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 
but have eternal life" (John 3: 14, 15). 

Nicodemus was well acquainted with the incident of 
the brazen serpent in the wilderness, recorded in Hebrew 
history, as follows : 

4. "And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way 
of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the 
soul of the people was much discouraged because of the 
way. 

5. And the people spake against God, and against 
Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt 
to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is 
there any water ; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 

6. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, 
and they bit the people ; and much people of Israel died. 

7. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We 
have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and 
against thee ; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the 
serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 

8. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery 
serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, 
that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall 
live. 

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290 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any 
man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived" 
(Num. 21 14-9). 



Because of their sins the Lord sent fiery serpents among 
the Israelites, whose bites meant certain death. Repent- 
ant of their sins, they asked Moses to pray unto the Lord 
to take away the serpents. In answer to the prayer of 
Moses, the Lord did not take away the serpents. They 
were left to bite the people, but He ordered Moses, "Make 
thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole, and it shall 
come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he look- 
eth upon it, shall live." 

When any of the Israelites were bitten by these ser- 
pents, there was no human cure for them. The bites of 
the serpents were followed by certain death, but as soon 
as they looked upon the brazen serpent they were healed. 
They were not healed, however, by the brazen serpent, 
but by the Lord God Himself ; because they believed His 
word and obeyed His commandment. 

In like manner, said the Lord Jesus, "must the Son of 
man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should 
not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3 : 15). 

When the bitten Israelite beheld the substitute serpent 
of brass upon the pole he was instantly cured and saved 
from temporal death; but remained the same natural 
man. When, however, the natural Man believes in the 
Son of Man, Jesus Christ who died for him upon the 
cross, he is not only instantly saved from perishing, but 
is given a new life, a spirit life, an eternal life. 

The bitten Israelite had but to look upon the serpent 
and live, and the natural Man with all of his sin has but 



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to believe in Jesus the Son of Man and have the spirit life 
— the eternal life. 

3. Other Conclusive Scripture Texts 

The very simple, but wonder-working plan by which 
the natural, the carnal Man, is to be delivered from per- 
ishing and receive eternal life, is stated very positively by 
Jesus Christ, as follows : 

14. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilder- 
ness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: 

15. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 
but have eternal life" (John 3 : 14, 15). 

This plan of the Lord God for Man's salvation is like- 
wise expressed most definitely and emphatically in the 
following scriptures: 

16. "For God so loved the world, that He gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not 
perish, but have everlasting life. 

17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn 
the world ; but that the world through him might be saved. 

36. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life : 
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but 
the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3: 16, 17, 36). 

Also 

"Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born 
of God; and every one that loveth him that begat loveth 
him also that is begotten of him" (I John 5:1). 

B. The Great Apostle Paul Also Has Stated Most Pos- 
itively and Definitely the Deplorable and Helpless Condi- 
tion of the Natural Man in Sin and Death and how He 
Can Be Triumphantly Saved and Afforded Everlasting 



292 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

Life by Jesus Christ. The great apostle Paul, like Jesus 
Christ, has stated most positively and definitely the de- 
plorable and helpless condition of the natural man in sin 
and death and how he can be completely delivered from 
this terrible condition and afforded eternal life and 
entrance into the Kingdom of God by faith in Jesus 
Christ. 

First: 

io. "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not 
one: 

n. There is none that understandeth, there is none that 
seeketh after God. 

12. They are all gone out of the way, they are together 
become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, 
not one, 

13. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their 
tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under 
their lips : 

14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 

15. Their feet are swift to shed blood: 

16. Destruction and misery are in their ways : 

17. And the way of peace have they not known : 

18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. 

19. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, 
it saith to them who are under the law : that every mouth 
may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty be- 
fore God. 

20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no 
flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowl- 
edge of sin. 

21. But now the righteousness of God without the law 
is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the 
prophets ; 

22. Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of 
Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe : for 
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23. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of 
God; 

24. Being justified freely by his grace through the re- 
demption that is in Christ Jesus : 

25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation 
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for 
the remission of sins that are past, through the forbear- 
ance of God; 

26. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: 
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which 
believeth in Jesus" (Rom. 3 : 10-26). 

Second: 

1. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them 
which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, 
but after the Spirit. 

2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath 
made me free from the law of sin and death. 

3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak 
through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness 
of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh : 

4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled 
in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things 
of the flesh ; but they that are after the Spirit the things 
of the Spirit. 

6. For to be carnally minded is death ; but to be spirit- 
ually minded is life and peace. 

7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: 
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed 
can be. 

8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 

9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be 
that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man 
have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

10. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because 
of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 

11. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from 



294 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the 
dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit 
that dwelleth in you. 

12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, 
to live after the flesh. 

13. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die : but if ye 
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye 
shall live. 

14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they 
are the sons of God. 

15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again 
to fear ; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, 
whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 

16. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that 
we are the children of God : 

17. And if children, then heirs ; heirs of God, and joint- 
heirs with Christ ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that 
we may be also glorified together. 

18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time 
are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall 
be revealed in us. 

19. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth 
for the manifestation of the sons of God. 

20. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not 
willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the 
same in hope, 

21. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered 
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty 
of the children of God. 

22. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and 
travaileth in pain together until now. 

23. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have 
the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan 
within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the re- 
demption of our body. 

24. For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is 
not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope 
for? 



MAN MADE A WORTHY PARTAKER 295 

25. But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with 
patience wait for it. 

26. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities : for 
we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but 
the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings 
which cannot be uttered. 

27. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is 
the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for 
the saints according to the will of God. 

28. And we know that all things work together for good 
to them that love God, to them who are called according 
to his purpose" (Rom. 8: 1-28). 



XXXIX 

The Natural Man. How He Can and Must Be Saved 
by Human Agency in the Name of Jesus Christ 

These amazing truths concerning the lost and wretched 
condition of the natural man everywhere about us, in our 
immediate neighborhoods, in the inner circles of our 
friends and in our homes; and how he can and must be 
saved, if saved at all, by his fellow man in the name of 
Jesus Christ, should stir our hearts with the deepest com- 
passion for him and incite us to immediate, continuous 
and untiring efforts in leading him to Jesus Christ for 
personal salvation and entrance into the glorious and ever- 
lasting Kingdom of God. Thus all the innumerable and 
infinite needs of his soul would be eventually and abun- 
dantly supplied by the provisions of the Creator, God, 
forever. As previously stated, the provisions of the Lord 
God for all the needs of the soul of Man (the natural 
Man) are as real as are the needs themselves. They are 
all available ; but, only through Jesus Christ, are perfectly 
adapted and all-satisfying to the innumerable needs of 
the soul, infinite in quantity and are delightful and glori- 
ous beyond expression in their application and use 
throughout eternity. 

Since the above statements are unquestionably true 
and since every natural man saved by faith in Jesus 
Christ will just as certainly become a partaker of all of 
these provisions of the Creator, God, for all the needs of 

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his soul forever without limit, it is worth all the earthly 
life of the best of men to be the means of leading the 
poorest possible specimen of the natural Man to Jesus 
Christ for life eternal and a sure entrance into the ever- 
lasting and glorious Kingdom of God. 

The Lord Jesus Christ came into the world in obedience 
to the will of God to live, labor and die for the natural 
Man, to make it possible for him to have all the needs 
of his soul completely supplied by the provisions of God, 
the Creator. 

9. "Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He 
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 

10. By the which will we are sanctified through the 
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all" (Heb. 
10:9-10). 

A. All True Christians Commissioned by the Lord 
Jesus Christ to Do This Most Blessed and Needful Work 
for Their Fellowmen. In His prayer to His Father, Jesus 
said,: 

18. "As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I 
also sent them into the world" (John 17: 18). 

Accordingly, it is not only our very great privilege to 
do all we can for the salvation of our fellow men ; but it 
is our bounden duty to do so to the best of our ability 
under the direction of the Holy Spirit. 

Furthermore, it is expressly stated by the Lord in His 
holy Word that according to our faithfulness or unfaith- 
fulness as watchmen unto our fellow men in this all- 
important matter, He will deal with us. 

17. "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto 



298 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, 
and give them warning from me. 

18. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; 
and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the 
wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same 
wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I 
require at thine hand. 

19. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from 
his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in 
his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul" (Ezek. 

3:i7-i9)- 

All true Christians therefore must pray, study and plan 
with the help of the Holy Spirit to do this essential work, 
which they are sent by the Master Himself to do, in 
the best possible way, according to the time and means at 
their disposal. 

All true Christians, however, have not the time and 
ability to lead many of their fellow men to Jesus Christ 
for salvation, to anchor them in the Christian faith and 
to qualify them to do like work for others. But few men, 
if any, can accomplish this very essential work for a large 
number of men in large meetings in a short time as it 
ought to be done. 

The Lord Jesus Christ concentrated His efforts upon 
twelve chosen men for the space of three years to prepare 
them for this blessed work and then commanded them to 
wait for the enduement of the Holy Spirit before they 
would be qualified to accomplish it as it ought to be done. 

But all true Christians, as individuals, have each the 
time, and with careful preparation, the ability, under the 
direction and help of the Holy Spirit, to lead one of their 
fellow men to Jesus Christ, anchor him in the Christian 
faith and qualify him to do the same for another. 



MAN SAVED BY HUMAN AGENCY 2 Q0 

This would necessitate much and intense prayer, much 
and careful study of the Word of God, also much and 
close reliance upon the guidance and power of the Holy 
Spirit to accomplish all that is possible and that ought to 
be done. 

Of such workers Jesus Christ in his last words on earth 
said, "Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem 

and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost 
part of the earth" (Acts 1:8). 

Of course, much needed information, inspiration and 
other help for such service could be gotten from Christ- 
like ministers of the Gospel and from consecrated laymen 
of greater experience than themselves. 

B. To Accomplish the Best Possible Results Every True 
Christian should Voluntarily Concentrate His Best Ef- 
forts upon One Person Only at a time, at Least One Hour 
a Week for a Whole Year if Necessary. In a word, every 
true Christian should not only continue in true spiritual 
work of a general character to the best of his ability, but 
he should voluntarily concentrate his best efforts upon one 
person only at a time, to whom the Lord would direct him, 
at least one hour a week for a whole year if necessary, 
or for a definite and sufficient period of time agreed upon 
by both of them, which could be lengthened or shortened 
if necessary. 

Such a service for our neighbor would be a practical 
and definite expression or fulfillment of our blessed 
Lord's commandment : 

37. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with alJ thy 
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

38. This is the first and great commandment. 



300 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself" (Matt. 22:37-39). 

This is beyond all others the most effective and speedy 
method to save the great multitude of natural lost men, 
though it would require a whole year for each person. 
It would be the most effective method because it would 
afford ample time 

1. To find out by close personal contact, and by oft re- 
peated interviews the true character of the person thus 
served, and his willingness to become a Christian, as well 
as his peculiar doubts and hindrances, and would enable 
the worker to adapt his service accordingly. 

2. For prayer, study, instruction, and fellowship. 

3. To introduce him into church life, special Christian 
work, and into the best personal Christian relationships. 
It would be the most speedy because the largest number 
of workers could each do a complete work for one person 
and render him, so to speak, a finished product. 

If all true Christians would, as they could, each per- 
form such a service for another of their fellow men 
yearly, they would not only duplicate themselves every 
year, but, by their praying, studying God's Word and 
helpful serving in the name of Jesus Christ, they would 
attain to a much higher and more advanced plane of 
Christian experience and activity. 

Any true Christian who would thus devote as much as 
one hour a week for a whole year to one of his fellow men 
in leading him to Jesus Christ for personal salvation, in 
building him up in the Christian faith and life, and in 
preparing him to do like service for others, would gain 
a more practical knowledge and experience for such a 



MAN SAVED BY HUMAN AGENCY 301 

work than could be acquired by many years in almost any 
other way. 

By pursuing such a course for a number of years, all 
true Christians would beget a deserved reputation of wise 
and efficient helpfulness in leading their fellow men into 
a true Christian life, experience and service, and would 
therefore be constantly sought after by honest and earn- 
est inquirers to find out the way of a true Christian life 
and service, together with all the blessed relationships per- 
taining to them. 

Furthermore, all whom they would lead into the Chris- 
tian life and Christian service by such a course of activity 
would follow closely in their footsteps with like blessed 
results. 

Without doubt, the only rational, true, efficient and 
successful way to win the world of sinful natural men 
to Jesus Christ and life eternal, and to qualify them to do 
like work for others, is by individual, voluntary effort for 
individuals by all true Christians with the Gospel of 
Christ, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, and in 
Christ-like unity and cooperation with each other. 

C. This Is a Work That Every True Christian Can Do 
and Should Delight to Do, Because of the Lord's Positive 
Command, "As the Father Hath Sent Me, Even So Send 
I You." This is a work that every Christian can do and 
should delight to do, because of the infinitely greater 
work that was done for him by the Lord Jesus Christ, 
and because of the Lord's positive Command: "As the 
Father hath sent me, even so send I you" (John 20: 21). 

For such a service the great majority of Christians 
would not be required to leave their country, their state, 



302 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

county, city or town, nor indeed, their immediate neigh- 
borhood. They would not be compelled to give up their 
employments by which they secured their own livelihood, 
however scant. They would not be embarrassed by com- 
plicated, organized and exacting service with others; but 
rather a service of one person for another in the most 
simple and delightful manner, not to speak of the glorious 
presence of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. 

D. To Accomplish This Work as It Should Be Done 
Every True Christian Must Know the Gospel of Jesus 
Christ to Obey His Direct Command: "Preach the Gospel 
to Every Creature." 

For such an important and far-reaching service, how- 
ever, it would be necessary that every true Christian 
should acquaint himself with the Gospel of Christ, con- 
cerning which Jesus Christ Himself commanded His 
Apostles : 

15. "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to 
every creature. 

16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; 
but he that believeth not shall be damned" (Mark 16: 15, 

16). 

Of this Gospel the great Apostle Paul declared : 

First, "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an 
apostle, separated unto the gospel of God" (Rom. 1:1). 

Second, "For God is my witness, whom I serve with 
my spirit in the gospel of His Son" (Rom. 1:9). 

Third, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ : 
for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that 
believeth ; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from 
faith to faith : as it is written, The just shall live by faith" 
(Rom. 1 : 16, 17). 



MAN SAVED BY HUMAN AGENCY 303 

In fact, such a Christian worker should be well ac- 
quainted with the Bible, the sacred Scriptures, the Word 
of God. 

E. To Succeed in This Glorious Work Every True 
Christian Must Possess the Holy Spirit, As the Lord 
Jesus Commanded His Apostles, "They Should Not De- 
part from Jerusalem, But Wait For the Promise of the 
Father," namely, The Holy Ghost. It is very essential 
that any true Christian who may undertake this special 
and definite work for his fellow men, should be possessed 
of the Holy Spirit, according to the words of Jesus Christ 
to His apostles : 

4. "And being assembled together with them, com- 
manded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, 
but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, 
ye have heard of me. 

5. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be 
baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence" 
(Acts i:4,5)- 

1. The Holy Spirit is secured by prayer. 

13. "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts 
unto your children : how much more shall your heavenly 
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" (Luke 
11:13). 

15. "Who, when they were come down, prayed for 
them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. . . . 

17. Then laid they their hands on them, and they re- 
ceived the Holy Ghost" (Acts 8: 15, 17). 

2. As the Spirit of truth, the Holy Ghost will abide 
with and in the true believer forever. 

16. "And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you 



304 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever ; 
17. Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot 
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: 
but ye know him ; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be 
in you" (John 14: 16, 17). 

3. He shall teach you all things and bring all things to 
your remembrance : 

26. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom 
the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all 
things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatso- 
ever I have said unto you" (John 14:26). 

4. He shall testify of Jesus Christ. 

26. "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send 
unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which 
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me" (John 
15:26). 

5. He shall guide into all truth, show things to come, 
and glorify Jesus Christ: 

13. "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he 
will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of him- 
self; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: 
and he will shew you things to come. 

14. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, 
and shall shew it unto you. 

15. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore 
said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto 
you" (John 16: 13-15). 

6. And He shall impart power, and qualify for wit- 
nesses of Jesus Christ : 

8. "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy 
Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto 



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me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, 
and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:8). 

With such a knowledge of the Gospel of Christ, the 
Word of God, and with such a possession of the Holy 
Spirit, all true Christians would have the apostolic quali- 
fications, mighty in the Scripture and full of the Holy 
Ghost. 



XL 

Two Very Sure and Effective Means by Which the 
True Christian Worker Can Find Approach to 
the Natural Sinful Man, Convince Him of Sin, 
Lead Him to Jesus Christ for Personal Salva- 
tion, and Build Him Up in Christian Manhood 

First, Stated by Jesus Christ — John 16:8-11. 

Second, Stated by the Apostle Paul — Col. i : 19-29. 

Two very significant and definite statements in the 
Bible specify sure and effective means by which the true 
Christian worker can find approach to the natural, sinful 
Man, convince him of sin, lead him to Jesus Christ for 
personal salvation, build him up in Christian manhood, 
and qualify him to do like work for others. The one 
statement was made by Jesus Christ concerning the effec- 
tive work of the Holy Spirit, the third person in the Holy 
Trinity, the other by the Apostle Paul concerning the 
Gospel of Jesus Christ and His power to save to the ut- 
termost all who believe on Him. 

In the first place, the Lord Jesus Christ, speaking of 
His departure from the world and the coming of the 
Comforter, the Holy Spirit, said: 

8. "When he (the Holy Spirit) is come, he will reprove 
(convince) the world of sin, and of righteousness and 
of judgment : 

9. Of sin, because they believe not on me; 

10. Of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye 
see me no more; 

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11. Of judgment, because the prince of this world is 
judged" (John 16:8-11). 

It is essential that the natural sinful Man must be con- 
vinced of these three things, or of the first two at least, 
or he cannot and will not be saved. With these three 
things, sin, righteousness, and judgment, in a multitude 
of forms and significations, men and nations are con- 
stantly dealing in a most unsatisfactory manner ; as crime, 
proof of innocence or prison; debt, payment or punish- 
ment; murder, justification or death; transgression, or 
reparation or war. The Holy Spirit is the only one who 
can convince the natural Man of sin, righteousness, and 
judgment, as here spoken of by Jesus Christ. It would 
not do merely to say to the natural Man what sin, right- 
eousness, and judgment are. Otherwise the repetition of 
this statement of Jesus Christ here recorded would be all 
that would be necessary for all time. But this would not 
do, for it was said of Jesus Himself : 

37. "But though He had done so many miracles before 
them, yet they believed not on Him" (John 12: 37). 

Moreover, without the Holy Spirit it would not avail 
to convince the natural Man of their truth by a dramatic 
statement of these words of Jesus Christ, nor by a mental 
argument in proof of them, however clear and conclusive. 
They must be spiritually understood. 

The sin of unbelief in Jesus Christ by the natural Man 
is all-inclusive. He rejects the only Saviour, that could 
save him from his sins, and leaves them all in full ac- 
count against himself. 

The righteousness of Jesus Christ going to the Father 
is all-inclusive. While in the earth He paid the full pen- 



308 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

alty for all the sins of all mankind. Hence, now at the 
right hand of God the Father, He is the complete right- 
eousness for all who believe on Him. 

The judgment, that the prince of this world is judged, 
is also all-inclusive, because it includes the prince of this 
world himself, and all with him who reject Jesus Christ, 
the only one who could save them from their sins. 

In the second place, "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, 
called to be an apostle, separated unto the Gospel of 
God" (Rom. i: i), made the following all-assuring de- 
claration of the power of Jesus Christ to save the natural 
Man who believes on His name, and to present him holy, 
unblamable, and unreprovable in the sight of God : 

19. "For it pleased the Father that in him (Jesus 
Christ) should all fulness dwell; 

20. And, having made peace through the blood of his 
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself ; by him, 
I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 

21. And you, that were sometimes alienated and en- 
emies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he 
reconciled 

22. In the body of his flesh through death, to present 
you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight ; 

23. If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, 
and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, 
which ye have heard, and which was preached to every 
creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made 
a minister; 

24. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and 
fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in 
my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church : 

25. Whereof I am made a minister, according to the 
dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to 
fulfil the word of God ; 

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TWO SURE AND EFFECTIVE MEANS 309 

and from generations, but now is made manifest to his 
saints : 

27. To whom God would make known what is the 
riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; 
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1 : 19-27). 

With these two all-sufficient means — the Holy Spirit 
and the Gospel of Christ — all true Christian workers 
could say with Paul concerning Jesus Christ and the 
natural sinful Man : 

28. "Whom (Jesus Christ) we preach, 
Warning every man, 

And teaching every man in all wisdom ; 
That we may present every man perfect in Christ 
Jesus : 

29. Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his 
working, which worketh in me mightily" (Col. 1 : 28, 29). 

As a Rule, to Ensure True Success, Make Use of These 
Two Means in the Order Above Stated. As a rule, the 
best course to pursue in dealing with the natural Man to 
whom the Lord would send you, or whom the Lord would 
send to you, would doubtless be to follow the order of 
these two all-important statements of Jesus Christ and 
Paul just referred to. First, with the help of the Holy 
Spirit and the Word of God to convince him of sin, of 
righteousness, and of judgment. Then preach to him 
Jesus Christ, warn him and teach him in all wisdom, that 
you may present him perfect in Christ Jesus. 

1. Show him what sin is, the evil effects of sin in this 
life, and the terrible results of sin in the life to come. 

2. Show him Jesus, the righteousness of God, the only 
all-sufficient Saviour from all sin, and His willingness 
to save to the uttermost, and assure him of the blessed 



310 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

experience of the Christian life in this world, and of the 
all-glorious experience of the Christian life in the world 
to come; and 

3. Show him the certainty of the judgment of God and 
the uncertain tenure of his life in this world; that in an 
hour, a day, a week, a month, or a year, he may be sum- 
moned from this world to the next world, from time to 
eternity, when the misery or joy of his life will be fixed 
forever, as far as we are able to know from reason and 
revelation. 

Then remind him how careful he is to have the title 
to his real estate in this world perfect and correctly 
recorded; and to have his buildings and other valuable, 
perishable property insured against damage and destruc- 
tion by fire and storm, while he has no certain title to the 
all-glorious life in the world to come, which is now so 
freely offered to him by Jesus Christ and has no assurance 
whatever against the innumerable evils that constantly 
threaten his life and soul. 

If he is impressed, as he ought to be, with his sinful and 
helpless condition, that would impel him to exclaim, 
"What must I do to be saved ?" Then, 

1. With all your heart and soul preach to him Jesus 
Christ as his only all-sufficient Saviour. 

2. Warn him against trusting in his own works or in 
any other dependence or substitute for Jesus Christ, and 
from falling into the spirit of unbelief in departing from 
the living God. 

3. Teach him in all wisdom. 

4. That you may present him perfect in Christ Jesus. 
In this connection, I would further urge with great 

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should not only devote at least one hour a week to the 
development of the Christ life in one of his fellow men, as 
previously stated, but that he should personally devote at 
least another hour a week to conference and study with 
other true Christians, to whom the Holy Spirit would 
direct him, that his own spiritual life might be purged 
from error, vanity, or apathy, and that it might be deep- 
ened and intensified for a far better and more effective 
service in the future. 



XLI 
A Note of Warning and Assurance 

In the last chapter of this book I desire to sound a note 
of warning and assurance to all true Christians who may 
undertake and persist in this blessed work. 

The theme of this book, in a word, is that Man of him- 
self, is an all-needy, all-sinful and all-helpless creature; 
and that the Lord, his Creator, is all-sufficient, and all- 
willing to satisfy all of his needs and to deliver him from 
all of his sin. 

Man is a creature of needs innumerable, not one of 
which can he of himself supply. The Lord God, his Cre- 
ator, has provided a perfect supply infinitely greater than 
all of his needs. All that Man can do, or is expected 
to do, is gratefully to receive the supplies, without price, 
from his Creator and appropriate them according to the 
all-righteous laws and loving will of his Creator, when 
all of his imperative needs would become avenues, or 
channels, of constant and boundless pleasure to his body 
and joy to his soul. 

Man is also a creature with sins innumerable, not one 
of which can he of himself atone for or make good. The 
Lord God, his Creator, has provided for him a salvation 
infinitely greater than all of his sin. All that Man can 
do or is expected to do, is to turn from his sin and re- 
ceive with sincere repentance and belief this salvation 
freely offered to him, and appropriate it according to the 

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all-gracious and loving will of his Creator, God. Then, 
every sin forgiven would thrill his heart with gladness 
and the complete deliverance from all of his sin would fill 
his soul with inexpressible joy and delight. 

1. Therefore, in the first place, if any true Christian 
should reach a high plane of pleasure to his body and joy 
to his soul, by receiving and appropriating the boundless 
provisions of the Creator, God, for the needs of his body 
and of his soul, as previously indicated, and should he 
also be the means of leading others to the same high plane 
of pleasurable and joyful experience, let him not for a 
moment boast of it as his own achievement, or credit 
himself with its attainment. He must give all the praise 
and glory to the Lord God, his Creator and Provider. 
Then will he continue to reach higher planes of pleasure 
and joy; otherwise, he would not only fail to make any 
further true advancement in this blessed service, but 
would lose much of what he had already attained and 
experienced. 

2. Since the service of any true Christian for his fellow- 
man, as previously outlined, is primarily voluntary, per- 
sonal and private, it should not be made known in public 
addresses for display, or in printed reports for financial 
support. It should be kept as much as possible from 
public notice. There is no need of financial support se- 
cured in that way for such service. 

3. While the Lord will receive the humblest service of 
the humblest disciple, when done in good faith, let no 
man pretend to do this Christlike work for appearance 
sake to be seen of men, when his heart is not in it. In 
His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said : 

21. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, 



314 MAN'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUPPLIES 

shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth 
the will of my Father which is in heaven. 

22. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have 
we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have 
cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful 
works ? 

23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew 
you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matt. 
7:21-23). 

Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, paid the penalty with 
the loss of their lives for trying to deceive the Apostles 
by professing to do what they did not do (Acts 5 : 1-11). 

4. When any true Christian has attained a high plane 
of Christian life and activity in this blessed work, and 
has been the means of leading others to the same high 
plane of Christian experience, let him not for a moment 
stop to claim for himself holiness or Christian perfec- 
tion because of what he is of himself, or has accom- 
plished. He is yet a sinner, saved by grace. The only real 
holiness or perfection that can be claimed for him, or for 
any true Christian in this world, is that which is imparted 
to him from the holiness or perfection of "The Lamb 
slain from the foundation of the world," (Rev. 13:8); 
of the Man of Calvary "Who his own self bare our sins 
in his own body on the tree," (I Peter 2 : 24) ; and of the 
risen and ascended Lord Jesus Christ "Who is gone into 
heaven, and is on the right hand of God" (I Peter 3 : 22). 

While we live in this world, our warfare is not done. 
Therefore let us : 

10. "Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his 
might. 

11. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be 
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A NOTE OF WARNING AND ASSURANCE 315 

12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but 
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers 
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wicked- 
ness in high places. 

13. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, 
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and 
having done all, to stand. 

14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with 
truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness ; 

15. And your feet shod with the preparation of the 
gospel of peace ; 

16. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye 
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 

17. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of 
the Spirit, which is the word of God: 

18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in 
the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance 
and supplication for all saints" (Eph. 6: 11-18). 

While we live in this world, our race is not yet run. 

1. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with 
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every 
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let 
us run with patience the race that is set before us. 

2. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our 
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured 
the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right 
hand of the throne of God. 

3. For consider him that endured such contradiction of 
sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in 
your minds. 

4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against 
sin" (Heb. 12: 1-4). 

While we live in this world, we must live our Chris- 
tian life by faith alone. Therefore, 

23. "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith with- 



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out wavering; for he is faithful that promised" (Heb. 
10:23). 

Then, when the end shall come, we can say with the 
great Apostle Paul: 

6. "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my de- 
parture is at hand. 

7. 1 have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith : 

8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of right- 
eousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give 
me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them 
also that love his appearing" (II Tim. 4: 6-8). 

24. And "Now unto him that is able to keep you from 
falling, and to present you faultless before the presence 
of his glory with exceeding joy, 

25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and ma- 
jesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen" 
(Jude 24,25). 



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3 Ye saints in Christ, the King, 
Your grateful tribute bring 
Of love and praise. 

United in His royal name, 
With loyal hearts His words proclaim 
Throughout the world to sinful men, 
"Ye must be bom again." 

4 Ye saints in Christ, the Friend, 
On whom all hopes depend 

Of true relief; 

To every burdened soul you meet 
His gracious, loving words so sweet, 
"Come unto me," with love repeat, 
"And I will give you rest." 



5 Ye saints in Christ, arise I 
The world before you lies, 
Enslaved in sin; 

Make haste to swell the mission band, 
Prepared to go at His command, 
To save lost men in every land, 
At any sacrifice. 

6 Ye saints in Christ, the Son, 
In Him we all are one; 

For this He prayed. 
Then let us join the heavenly throng 
To sound His praise in endless song, 
For all we have and are belong 
To Christ, our Lord Divine. 

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